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Give me a student (any student)
give me only one definition of success and

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only one way to make it
give me academic excellence

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give me full-time extracurriculars
give me part-time job to pay the bills

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give me internship followed by internship
followed by internship followed by internship

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give me a lifetime of debt
then tell me I am worthless

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tell me my labour is not worth paying for
tell me its a favour to hire me

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for free
go on

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tell me I am worthless
when in this country

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millions of people compete for thousands of
jobs

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call it their own personal failure
when they don't all get one

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when the young and the old and the sick have
no way into a labour market

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ever contracting
ever decreasing

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when you take money out of their opportunities for
education and health

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call it their fault
call them lazy

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call them benefit scroungers
call it a “culture of dependency”

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go on
tell us we are worthless

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say it's not political
say it's “just the way it is”

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that food banks can be cut
but banks need be bailed out

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that the minimum wage can stagnate and benefits
be chucked off entirely

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but when the 1% made more off of the first
year of the financial crisis

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than they had for the 30 years before

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call it austerity
go on

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tell us we are worthless
rebrand public failure into personal competition

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rebrand it filling your CV
rebrand it increasing your skill sets

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rebrand it exposure and networking
as we rebrand it increasing your skill sets

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rebrand it exposure and networking
as we volunteer and intern

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volunteer and intern
digging ourselves ever deeper into debt

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ever deeper into despair
go on tell us we are worthless

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tell me unemployment levels skyrocketing have
nothing to do with it

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tell me being more likely to end up on the
street than in a graduate job has nothing

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to do with it
go on

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tell me we're all middle class now
call call centre workers and shelf stackers

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garbage handlers and cleaners
call one out of five working for less than

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the minimum wage
which is less than the living wage

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“just middle class in the making”?

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Go on
tell us we are worthless

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occupy my body
as if it were some resource you could use to

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raise the GDP
broken back from all the heavy lifting

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crumbling knees from those hours standing
depression and stress from the worry

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how will I pay rent this month
how will she support kids

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how will he pay the medical bills
go on

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tell us we are worthless
tell us the only thing not working about this

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system
is us