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Who wasn't PAID today? Ah, but what is PAYMENT in the grand tapestry of human existence? Are we not all merely creditors and debtors in the endless ledger of the cosmos? To inquire who among us has not received mere monetary compensation is to skim the surface of a deeper, more turbulent query: what are we TRULY owed?

Is it gold, or silver, or the crumpled paper we chase with such fervor? Or is it something more profound, something less tangible—RESPECT, TIME, ACKNOWLEDGMENT? As we stand here, pockets empty, hearts perhaps fuller with the weight of existential inquiry, let us ponder not who was denied the currency of commerce,

but who was denied the richer, more elusive currency of meaning and purpose in this vast, spinning, capitalist gyre. Who, indeed, was not PAID today, not in cash, but in the currency of their SOUL?

(i have not been paid)