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Micheal, Merit plays a big role in the social order or class structure of the American Hustle. Woven through our psyche is a natural instinct to achieve something that is meaningful, valuable, honestly gives us relief from the hustling atmosphere around us. Unfortunately most of that relief is misdirected through attaining material goods or Spiritual Materialism instead of looking at our personal motivations which are often addictive patterns requiring more when the previous trinket or movie or oversized meal is had. We gullible serfs think ownership creates a kingdom of security. Talk with a homeless person who has been kicked out of their home because they were not keen enough to perceive all the subtle consequences of their mortgage agreement. It was stacked against their means to pay from the beginning as our legislative officials bought off by the largesse of unregulated banking has made it. They think it is a fair and balanced industry when it is totally preditorial. Then they were allowed, the Big Boys in Banking, City Bank, etc. to bundle those bad mortgage failures into a securities nightmare that led to the 2008 financial collapse, were they held to account for their bad business practices they knew were a risk they kept shoving further under the carpet? No they were Proclaimed too big to fail as it would crush the economic idealism of the American dream. Total BS contrary to how the the rest of us serfs must relate to economics. Thank the pathetic American congress for not following up with stricter regulations on banking, they along with the last six presidents Hustling like good Materlist have taken us to the cleaners to leave millions on the streets. We now are being hustled by Oligarchs who control who gets to talk and gets to servitude their fundamental materialism. When we are all in the streets maybe we will start to talk about revolution that serves the common good.

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