"You can't make it on merit, not on merit and merit alone"
-Titus Andronicus, A Pot in Which to Piss
Most have had others decide how far their merit can actually take them. There is always and will always be someone above you telling you how far you are allowed to go, regardless of how far you know that you can go. The idea that we have all earned what we have achieved (or have achieved what we have earned) is American Dream propaganda spread by the Capitalist Corporations that thrive off of the hard work and capitalistic-optimism of the don't-know-better-workers.
What we need is a revolution.
What we need is a society in which Meritocracy actually exists.
A society in which the color of your skin does not define the level to which you will rise.
A society in which your gender doesn't give you immediate managerial power over others of a "less-masculine" type.
A society in which I could be straight, bi, gay, asexual, pansexual, etc. and not be expected to work any differently.
We must personally rearrange society in a way that gives everyone an automatic incentive to work without dangling wages in front of their faces.
We need equality.
We need to believe in the ability of ourselves AND the ability of others.
-In the full potential that each and every human being contains.
We need to stop bowing down to money, and the faces that have attached themselves to money- to richness.
-to the transnational corporations that build and build, Paying to have Presidents elected to represent their business interests and not a human interest.
-To the rich who only think that their money has power against us.
-Our spirit is stronger than any sell-out, capitalist fraud who sold their spirit for a few shares in the stock market.
The goal- to work with each other
-to work for each other
Whether this be in our jobs, our schools and universities, our households, or our social groups, we need equality to shine through to each and every piece of society so that maybe, just maybe, all of the garbage they have spoon fed us about the American Dream can come true.
