Who made rich Rich and poor Poor?

Syed
The Post-Grad Survival Guide
6 min readJan 29, 2019

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Were you born rich or poor?

Were you born handsome or ugly?

Were you born with talents or not?

Were you born to beg or give?

These are just rudimentary questions that have been mostly used in movies to emotionally exploit all of us. Here is the basic and sophisticated question that we need to ask:

Who decides?

Who decides that Bruce will be rich and Clark will be poor?

Who decides to label Clark as the sex-symbol and Bruce as the turn-off?

Who decides Bruce has talents and Clark just got lucky?

Who decides Clark will beg and Bruce will have mercy?

Let me take you back to the sweet old time. The time when humanity started to flourish and when the first human being walked on planet Earth. There was no other person. Just him. He met her and they had sex. Congratulations! It’s a boy.

What happens now? Do the parents just throw away the baby so that he will find someone like his parents did or will they care and nurture him until he meets his prom queen?

How will they raise this kid? Will they look at other parents and follow their lead or will they do whatever is in their power to give this child as much as they…

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