Inspired by Corruption
Funny, when inspiration grabbed me for my young adult series The Gifted Ones, I didn't realize that the setting would parallel the corruption of modern society so well. Money rules the world, and those with money accuse those without of being lazy, or not having ambition, or not managing resources better. Instead of helping the less fortunate achieve their fortune, the money hungry take and take and take from the less fortunate. Instead of guiding the less fortunate, the greedy charge the less fortunate for services that won't really help them end their pay check to pay check struggle, but only make the struggle worse.
In a certain business I will not name, those who draw a six figure income accept raises that should be given to those less fortunate who haven't had a decent raise in years. I don't see how that helps the less fortunate manage their money better in an ever increasing cost of living society.
Do you?
Money breeds guilt and contempt toward those less fortunate.
Money breeds contempt from the less fortunate toward those in positions of power and corruption where misappropriation of funds is a commonality.
Cheater, the main character in The Gifted Ones: The Fairytale , is poor and concerned about living minute to minute, day to day. She has ambition to fulfill a purpose beyond her needs. She is about to battle a corruption far greater than she has known. Jazz is poor. His step father is corrupt. Jazz hasn't known the kind of corruption he will witness in the end. Nathan, Cai, Rebecca, Thad--the main characters in The Gifted Ones: The Dream--all come from different backgrounds, ethnicity, and the tragedy of corruption has touched their lives, bringing them together. They have unique ways to battle that corruption.
I wish I had a power... an ability... a gift that would open the eyes of the money hungry, corrupt administrators and CEOs in this world and allow them to see what they do every time they accept a raise without the backbone of the business receiving a raise, too. I wish I were like Cheater, whose innocent ability to change the minds of the corrupt opens the eyes of those afflicted by greed. I would open the eyes of our corrupt administrators--some of which happen to worry that their hardworking minions are trying to think of ways to make more money instead of seeing to it that they do make more money. If I had a power that would allow corrupt administrators to recognize the division they are building between haves and have-nots in the business world, I would use it.
Corruption rules and shame falls where it will. There are those who feel shame by this unfair distribution, by the corruption of money, yet their high class lifestyle and future retirement become more important than the guilt they carry or what soul they have left. They won't look the minions in the eye anymore, won't speak to them in passing because they know they were wrong for accepting a raise--once they were a minion and they still happen to slightly care about those who are the backbone of the business. Still, that extra money each month really helps build that huge retirement fund that will ensure they continue to enjoy the six figure lifestyle they've come to know.
The Gifted Ones may right the wrong of corruption in their world... or they may die. Whichever way the series unfolds, The Gifted Ones are good and compassionate and kind and helpful to the all.
The Gifted Ones are sought out and marked for death by the corrupt. Good versus evil... look around you.
The Gifted Ones change people; they change lives; they've lived on the receiving end of corruption. Of course, here's the fantasy in this tale of youth righting wrongs in their world: changing the corrupt.
The real world demands that once corrupted by money, those inflicted would sooner die than give up a dollar, or $3,000. The inflicted will suffer the shame of a raise and become greedy as the shame builds. The inflicted will desire more and more and more without a thought to where they started in the business and who took their places.
Greedy corruption of administrators does not make a happy work environment.
Will good, hardworking, people ever receive their just rewards for honest labor?
Will The Gifted Ones set their world right by removing corruption?
The answers will come when minions get a raise and the series ends.
I fear good will win in one case, but not the other.
In a certain business I will not name, those who draw a six figure income accept raises that should be given to those less fortunate who haven't had a decent raise in years. I don't see how that helps the less fortunate manage their money better in an ever increasing cost of living society.
Do you?
Money breeds guilt and contempt toward those less fortunate.
Money breeds contempt from the less fortunate toward those in positions of power and corruption where misappropriation of funds is a commonality.
Cheater, the main character in The Gifted Ones: The Fairytale , is poor and concerned about living minute to minute, day to day. She has ambition to fulfill a purpose beyond her needs. She is about to battle a corruption far greater than she has known. Jazz is poor. His step father is corrupt. Jazz hasn't known the kind of corruption he will witness in the end. Nathan, Cai, Rebecca, Thad--the main characters in The Gifted Ones: The Dream--all come from different backgrounds, ethnicity, and the tragedy of corruption has touched their lives, bringing them together. They have unique ways to battle that corruption.
I wish I had a power... an ability... a gift that would open the eyes of the money hungry, corrupt administrators and CEOs in this world and allow them to see what they do every time they accept a raise without the backbone of the business receiving a raise, too. I wish I were like Cheater, whose innocent ability to change the minds of the corrupt opens the eyes of those afflicted by greed. I would open the eyes of our corrupt administrators--some of which happen to worry that their hardworking minions are trying to think of ways to make more money instead of seeing to it that they do make more money. If I had a power that would allow corrupt administrators to recognize the division they are building between haves and have-nots in the business world, I would use it.Corruption rules and shame falls where it will. There are those who feel shame by this unfair distribution, by the corruption of money, yet their high class lifestyle and future retirement become more important than the guilt they carry or what soul they have left. They won't look the minions in the eye anymore, won't speak to them in passing because they know they were wrong for accepting a raise--once they were a minion and they still happen to slightly care about those who are the backbone of the business. Still, that extra money each month really helps build that huge retirement fund that will ensure they continue to enjoy the six figure lifestyle they've come to know.
The Gifted Ones may right the wrong of corruption in their world... or they may die. Whichever way the series unfolds, The Gifted Ones are good and compassionate and kind and helpful to the all.
The Gifted Ones are sought out and marked for death by the corrupt. Good versus evil... look around you.
The Gifted Ones change people; they change lives; they've lived on the receiving end of corruption. Of course, here's the fantasy in this tale of youth righting wrongs in their world: changing the corrupt.
The real world demands that once corrupted by money, those inflicted would sooner die than give up a dollar, or $3,000. The inflicted will suffer the shame of a raise and become greedy as the shame builds. The inflicted will desire more and more and more without a thought to where they started in the business and who took their places.
Greedy corruption of administrators does not make a happy work environment.
Will good, hardworking, people ever receive their just rewards for honest labor?
Will The Gifted Ones set their world right by removing corruption?
The answers will come when minions get a raise and the series ends.
I fear good will win in one case, but not the other.
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