Swooped Label

By Robyn Rudd | Gossip

Since our first day in the classroom, society has been neatly sorting us into boxes. Girls to the left, boys to the right.

The "clever" kids in one room, the "less academic" in another. Picked first for the sports team, or left standing last. We have been conditioned from day dot to accept that our value is determined by the label we are slapped with.

Throughout our education, this pressure is turned up to a fever pitch. We are told these years are the most important point of our lives – mess this up, and we are threatened with a hopeless future. The directive is simple: work as hard as you can, follow the laid-out track, and never deviate. We are taught to fuel the economic engine and remain just afraid enough of failure to tow the line.

Then comes the grand transition from education to employment. We are sold the promise of the big corporate job, contingent on getting that degree. Naive and wet behind the ears, we walk off the graduation stage straight into the workplace, already burdened with thousands in debt. Before our careers even begin, we owe them our livelihood.

Starting out on a pittance, we are fed the same old line: work harder, and more money will come. But as soon as you start earning, the system wants its cut. To bridge the gap, banks happily throw credit at us, keeping us under control and feeding the economic pumper of debt.

This is where the hypocrisy of the label becomes glaringly obvious across every layer of life:

Taking a year out: A wealthy student taking a break from education gets to call it a "gap year" – a celebrated journey of personal growth. A working-class student taking the exact same year out is immediately written off as a failure.

Borrowing money: When a low earner carries debt, it is viewed as reckless or poor financial management. When the wealthy borrow, debt is rebranded as "leverage," and massive borrowing power is celebrated as astute strategy.

Housing assistance: A low-paid worker grinding through 40 hours a week who falls into housing distress faces a four-year waiting list and gets told there is no emergency help unless they hit rock bottom. Meanwhile, central budgets appear overnight to fund temporary housing elsewhere, leaving the tax-paying worker trying to play by the rules feeling completely abandoned.

Worst of all, old-school communities have been broken down, turning close-knit neighborhoods into collections of strangers. By stripping power out of local hands, the system ensures people stay isolated. A divided, disconnected community can't stand together or organize an uproar when things go wrong – it's far easier to control individuals who don't even know the person living next door.

And where has fairness gone if you dare to question this? Express frustration about these double standards, and instead of an honest debate, you are disproportionately slapped with extreme labels – branded a "Nazi" or an extremist simply for asking where the fairness is for working people. It is a deliberate tactic to shut down conversation, divide us further, and enforce compliance.

Look at a packet of cigarettes made by UK manufacturers. They export that pack to Europe where it sells for £3. Yet back home, the exact same product is slapped with an 80%+ tax rate, pushing the shop price up to £18 or £20. If a private entity applied that level of markup, it would be branded extortionate loan-sharking. But when the state does it, it's accepted as standard practice.

Label it all however you want – spin it with politics, economics, or official terminology. Strip all that away and it is as plain as day: it is either right or wrong. And in my book, it's all wrong.

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