Law in Contemporary Society

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Worker Bees

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 Ironically, she may realized she died worth absolutely nothing.
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<		I struggle with escaping the mentality of the worker bee and contextualizing life. I, like all of us, am a slave to money. I am well aware that no matter how much money I make, I will want more. It will not dictate every decision I make, but it also will never be vanquished. That is how the system works; there is no satisfaction. If I were ever to become satisfied, I would be dispensable in our capitalist society. It is my perverted sense of fulfillment via wealth accumulation that makes me useful to the system.
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>		I struggle with escaping the mentality of the worker bee and contextualizing life. I, like all of us, am a slave to money. I am well aware that no matter how much money I make, I will want more. The desire to make money will not dictate every decision I make, but it also will never be vanquished. That is how the system works: there is no satisfaction. If I were ever to become satisfied, I would be dispensable in a capitalist society like ours. It is my perverted sense of fulfillment via wealth accumulation that makes me useful to the system.
 I'm not justifying a life focused on making money by framing the issue as some sort of inevitability that I need to come to terms with. For me, I will always be fighting this urge, particularly when it stands in the way of my ethical beliefs and my public policy ambitions.

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