Greed

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The world is a dark place when you get older you realize that the stories you built your life on the morals you have branded into your head make you a fool. The way the world works day and night and all we do is take. We take from the land we take from people we give a blind eye to the real problems until they are our own. We look at the people on the streets and think that couldn't be me we act like just because we work for what we have that we are better superior to the homeless superior to the rich the rich get handed everything the homeless are druggies. We never consider the people aren't the problem we make assumptions built on what we've learned and are taught. In school they teach you how to function off of no energy they teach you to slave away constantly thinking taking working breaking. It's built into our blood to take breed and die watching as the cord we call air gets thicker as the grass doesn't get greener as the stone gets stronger and the people work harder. I imagine our future and I see mask that produce air I see everyone struggling to survive while only few have the money to make it but even then the worlds so gone that everyone has gone insane I don't see change I see the end. I believe everything our society has created everything we've done will catch up to us and we will all vanish in the most painful of ways for what we've become

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