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Wealth

by @maxine-robbins

If you haven’t noticed this town is a very small place, And it makes me wonder about the type of people that live here. Now there is diversity of origin with every kind of race, But there’s a type of race that is starting to disappear. That race is an economic one called the working class, It is heavily getting replaced by what we normal folk call the wealthy. These people drive their shiny Mercedes like their whole life was a free pass, And they flaunt their money around to the point where it’s unhealthy. They buy their cookie cutter mansions up like they’re buying Taco Bell, Spending a million dollars on a house for four surely isn’t ridiculous. And maybe it wouldn’t be if the other 99% of America could do it as well, But we have a lack of money that makes us a bit more meticulous. We aren’t able to buy a new house or a new car just because we want to, And we sure as hell can’t afford a Porsche or a Corvette. Unlike you we have our sad little low paying jobs to do, Yes, I’m totally sure sitting in your office chair really makes you break a sweat. But the worst part of it all is these rich people will have a daughter or a son! And they’re gonna grow up to be just like their mother and father. It’ll be like watching a reality tv show rerun, They’ll be wasting the same money and being the same bother. My children will be working just to buy enough gas for their car, While these kids will ask mommy or daddy for a new watch or phone. But I guarantee you the working class kids will go twice as far, As the little rich kids who will grow up always expecting a loan.
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