The despair of being indebted beyond all hope of ever reaching a neutral point again bloomed, so some people surrendered all their hours on this earth in labor, burning calories, sacrificing their offspring, clogging arteries with cheap sustenance, all to feed another set of humans that ate slightly better food, labored slightly less often, and who themselves paid a debt to another set of humans, who ate even better food and labored a little less often, and so on and so forth, until there was only one person, lazy in his self-concern, divorced from the larger community of his people, paranoid,
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