[ WP ] You are an orphan 500 years from now .

It's hard to imagine what went wrong... 
 
 As I wander between the impossibly high towers of New Washington DC I can only think of how our ancestors thought our future would be. Those idiots. They though it would be Jetson style 50s garbage where everything was perfect, and for many people that is true. Medicine extends life span at least 150 years, gene therapy perfects the human body, and technology allowing us to stay in total bliss. 
 
 Then why am I here? 
 
 Dirty, hungry, and angry at the world above me. I'm not alone, dammit there are hundreds of us just in this district of the city. The perfection of this dreamland is only a shiny cover of a pile of shit. The people above laugh and enjoy pleasure not even imagined by us, and we are here eating the scraps and try to work our way up. How did we get here? 
 
 Little Billy is the youngest of us here, his parents one day just hopped into their virtual reality pods and never came out. Before he left to look for food the shriveled bodies of his mother and father just barely held to life. Jack remembered the day he lost his parents as well. One day they flew him in their hover pod to the edge of the city and left him there, unwilling to care for another while they enjoy the sick pleasures that awaited them in a post scarcity society. Jessica was the saddest story of all. From the day she was designed she was destined to satisfy the pleasure of some old pervert, the perfect sex doll. She ran away as soon as she could... the stories she tells... 
 
 Me? I'm the `` perfect little boy'' or at least that was as advertised to my `` parents'' I was created from their DNA, with added improvements, and was given to them as a god damn trophy. One day, however, they thought they saw something wrong. My hair color was a bit off, my personality was n't up to par in their eyes. You ca n't hide the fact that I was born from the seed of these two ugly monsters in every sense of the term. I was not the obedient and beautiful little slave they wanted me to be, I WAS ME!!! I was human!!! 
 
 That did n't stop them from trying to kill me by shoving me off the balcony... 
 
 I was lucky to grab onto the balcony below, I was still athletic for my age thanks to the gene therapy, and escaped. I ran until I got to the ground floor and never looked back. I ended up here, miles below the light and happiness, along with my children, yes, my children. These kids have lost everything to people too lazy or too cruel to care, and I was the only one who could help them. I led them to make a life in the squalor, we will survive. 
 
 I still wonder if anyone cares we are down here, do they know the cost of this paradise?
