The rich only want to get richer, and leave poor people in the dust, so they pay people off to keep them happy enough to shove the rest of us down.
Society tends to mistreat someone or something that does not follow its ordinary norm, whether it's ethnicity , cultural , ideology, or even merely physical difference. The excerpt address the exact issue
If your referring to the lion, the witch and the wardrobe, then they are playing a game of hiding seek!
4. In 1854, Cyrus West Field conceived the idea of the telegraph cable and secured a charter to lay a well-insulated line across the floor of the Atlantic Ocean. Obtaining the aid of British and American naval ships, he made four unsuccessful attempts, beginning in 1857.
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