Jiu Valley. 2008. Here everything is about coal mines. There is nothing else. If you were born in the Jiu Valley, or in any other mining area in Romania, most likely your father is a miner and your mother a housewife. You also have 2-3 brothers and you’ve got only one future: with the pickaxe in their hand, working day and night. Poverty dominates. Maybe a controlled poverty, who knows? If you were born in his area, you have no alternative. Someone had to work there too. Someone has to die!
Bucharest. 2008. Here people compete at swearing from their SUV’s, in traffic jams. Here there are advertising agencies, law firms, dozens of televisions, here our illustrious candidates are fighting on advertising space, the future is made with a pen and a paper or behind a computer. Consumerism is fashionable, we like to walk in malls, to dress in the best suits, to buy gucci bags, jewelries and eat at luxury restaurants.
Why are we more special than those people who struggle for a bread crumb? Well, we’re not! We were just lucky to be born in a city that gives us a lot of comfort. We were lucky to have a father who is a “businessman”, a “successful politician”, or maybe a teacher or a doctor. We’ve got another path, other opportunities, but we are no differences between us and those people who see the light of day twice a week. Were we born smarter than them? Not at all! There you can be as smart as you are, when you know you’re starving if you don’t go down in the coal mine, you don’t think about anything else. Except for survival.
Equal opportunities are just a stupid cliché. It all comes down to luck. You are lucky to be born where you need to be, you live in comfort. You’re out of luck, you’re dying!
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