17;t rely on money to live. We work in order to receive credits which “pay” for all of our consumption’s here. Clothes, food, medical treatment, and our homes are paid for with credits. Sara: Are things rationed then?Beth: We have no reason to do that, people only take what they will use.Sara: What about competition, what about being on top. What motivates you to do better? Beth: We need no competition, no one is on the top, everyone in on an equal field. We don’t try to do better, because we already do our best.Sara: Bull*censored*, no one is the same.Beth: That’s not what I am saying, we just do our best everyday and there is nothing to improve upon.Sara: I know that this sounds rude, but why does everything you say sound like you read it out of the Walden 2 handbook? Do you have any opinions of your own?Beth: Of course I do. Everything I say is from my own thoughts, no one else’s. In fact in our studies on the modern society, we learned that in fact people outside of Walden II are more influenced by their parents than anyone else. Children tend to take the opinions of their parents and adopt them as their own.Sara: In some regards I agree with you, but here it seems like everyone is exactly the same.Beth: That is not true, we have different things for different people. Like in some rooms we play only on type of music, and not everyone likes it.Sara: You don’t see it do you?Beth: See what?Sara: Never mind. You were saying that our parents influence us, what makes you any different?Beth: Well at Walden II, we are pretty much raised by everybody. Everybody loves all of the children like their own and has a hand in raising them.Sara: That’s impossible, you can’t love other’s children like your own, it just doesn’t work that way.Beth: It does though, as a child you know who your parents are, but you also know any adult is willing to help you. In an area in ...
