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  "id": "texto-los-de-abajo",
  "language": "en",
  "canonical": "https://paynalton.tech/en/works/los-de-abajo/",
  "title": "The ones below",
  "summary": "Question the opposition between oppressive success and virtuous poverty.",
  "author": "Paynalton",
  "format": "critique",
  "year": 2013,
  "source": "https://paynalton.blogspot.com/2013/08/los-de-abajo.html",
  "partial": false,
  "topics": [
    {
      "title": "Critiques and opinion essays",
      "url": "https://paynalton.tech/en/topics/lectura-categoria-criticas/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Critique",
      "url": "https://paynalton.tech/en/topics/lectura-critica/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Social Critique",
      "url": "https://paynalton.tech/en/topics/lectura-critica-social/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Inequality",
      "url": "https://paynalton.tech/en/topics/lectura-desigualdad/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Success",
      "url": "https://paynalton.tech/en/topics/lectura-exito/"
    }
  ],
  "body": "For a long time they have made us believe that to reach the top we must step over others, oppress the weak, and surpass the best.<br><br>But what is even worse, they have made us believe that the only alternative is mediocrity, to live in community like the \"good people,\" and smile at the oppression of those who abandon all morality on their way to superiority.<br><br>They have even told us that, despite everything, the poor are happier, the mediocre are virtuous, and the martyrs will reach paradise.<br><br>But... is that really true?... Can we all be successful at the same time? Can we be happy without being oppressed? Can we achieve glory without sacrificing our body and soul at the altar of greed?<br><br>I have grown tired of living in a world where only one winner can exist, erected upon the lifeless bodies of a thousand losers.... And you?<br><br> <br> <br>\n\n<div>\n\n\n\n</div>\n"
}