In fact, in the movies and TV shows and books she’d read, you could tell if a character was the bad guy by how much he cared about money. And since she wanted to be good, she’d always been careful not to care too much about money. Now she wondered if all those Disney movies were merely propaganda to keep poor people content with their lot. We may be poor, but we’re the salt of the earth, we know what really matters. The rich are perverted by their hideous wealth—why, look at that Cruella de Vil! But good or evil, every single dollar was power. Power to hire a lawyer, power to control how she
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