"Where's mah ACE?"

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That's all we think of today. Money. What's in it for me? What rewards do I get? Nowadays, we, as human beings, have lost all sense of humanity to become materialistic and unfeeling zombies working for the sole purpose of material gain and set with the goal of material prosperity.

But even before adulthood, before we are able to even earn our keep, this trait is already very evident, in schools with competition, which are the elite schools, and an excellent case study would be US. This is more than obvious from the fact that volunteers in our school are just so little. Any request from teachers, be it to help out, to stay back, must always be followed by the promise of extra CIP hours. Without those, everyone else just scampers off with or without their tails between their paws. It goes against our conscience, it goes against our sense of morality, it goes against everything we know, and we don't mean to say it, but the ultimate question has always been "Is there ACE involved?". Now, this isn't entirely our fault too.

Nowadays, we lead a banausic life governed by rewards and incentives. Every living moment of day, we worry about our results, our ACE, our CIP hours, out OP points. Now, is this such a surprise? We carry the gene of materialism. It's present in our parents, and our grandparents too. Any single request today MUST be accompanied with a reward, be it monetary or another favour owed. Throughout the eons, man had always been so. Man is man. And greed in man always manifests.


"Oh and Mr Siew, if you are ever reading this, you promised me more ACE points for creating the inaugural Mark Day!" <-- THE IRONY.

Nowadays, we can't help but be materialistic b*tches.