Last Dance
America is a land of currency and capitalism. This isn’t a new issue, and has in fact been around for as long as the country itself has been established, and even then the issue can be followed back to our roots in England. In America, it’s a world run by the rich and powerful while the classes underneath desperately reach for scraps that will never be enough. This is perfectly highlighted with Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon and the person set to be the world’s first trillionaire, despite the horrible wages and working conditions of his employee’s being far from a secret. The frustrating, yet current situation wraps America up in a pretty bow. In the midst of a pandemic, the rich get richer while the underpaid, overworked lower classes are forced to work until they, quite literally, work themselves to death. “And on Mondays eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all day with mops and scrubbing-brushes and hammers and garden-shears, repairing the ravages of the night before”