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Bella talks about her biggest fear for the future.

By Aidan S. from Arcata High School in California

“I think my biggest fear for the future is that I’ll just become another number for a corporation. With everything that’s going on in the world, with work and making a living becoming harder and harder, I’m scared that I won’t be able to find a career that’s actually meaningful for me. That I’ll be stuck doing a meaningless job for a corporation that doesn’t care about me.”

-Bella Fratkin

Arcata High School

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