What is the Golden Rule? Well, there are two of them.
There's a Golden Rule that everybody knows, and there's the actual Golden Rule.
Also known as the ethic of reciprocity, people know the Golden Rule as,
"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." The sad truth
is, that's not the actual Golden Rule. The
actual Golden Rule is, "He who has the gold makes the rules." Sorry
for stating the obvious, but whoever has the most money usually has the ability
of having most influence over everything.
There was
a question on my US history quiz "Why did non-slaveholding whites still
support the institution of slavery?" There were two answers: 1. Ideas of
racism 2. Ambition to own slaves in the future. The actual Golden Rule
describes everything about this dirty world. Prestigious schools look at your
grades, not you. Big name companies look at your experiences and what school
you graduated from, not you. We're judged by what schools we came from, what
jobs we have, and how much money we make. "What do you do?" is a
typical American question asked when encountering a new person. So its
undeniable that your grades and your experience determine how much you're
worth. The dirty world is designed so that the ones from named schools get into
big name companies, and they employers employ people who graduated from their
school. As dirty as this gets, there's only one thing that can be done about
it: climb up the dirty ladder.
If a
company receives 20,000 resumes for a certain job opening, do you really think
that that company has all the time to go through the resumes and read every
single word written in there? The reality is, the ones with prestigious schools
on them are kept, and the rest of them are just thrown into the recycling
bin(if they actually recycle). You can sit there and complain about how that's
completely wrong, but nothing's gonna change. Sorry to say, but the only way
for you to change that dirty system is to climb up to the top and get rid of
it. The Golden Rule isn't just a quote that rose out of cynicism, but it's the
reality of the world today. Like the racist nonslaveholders, I, too, have the
ambition. I completely understand that "he how has the gold makes the
rules," and as wrong as that sounds, I know the only thing I can do is to
work myself up that ladder, to get the gold to make the rules.
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