Thanks for your feedback! The "you" has three different meanings: 1. Personal 2. Professional 3. National.

From a personal standpoint, the "you" represents certain friends, family and significant others in my life. These were people who I truly cared for yet did not reciprocate my sentiments. Instead they used my knowledge and support to better themselves while tearing me down.

On a professional level, the "you" has been both supervisors and peers that I have worked with. Instead of all of us working together as a team to make the overall organization better, they stole my work or used my own efforts and initiatives in order to selfishly advance their own careers. To be betrayed in such ways hurts.

The final, the national meaning, the "you" is America. Within this I think about two different groups I belong to that are speaking to this "you".

The first is Black America, during the period of formal slavery through the current point in history. Too many African Americans work (and have worked) only for the fruits of their labor to be stolen from them. Once their skills and talents have been completely used, they are cast away and discarded. Without a certain amount physical wealth to maintain or improve their needs, their mental health is drained as well (I also thought of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs when developing this).

The second is the American middle class. Given the wage stagnation vs. productivity and deregulation that has occurred for decades, we are seeing an erosion of the middle class. The money that is being earned through their hard work is being taken from them in order for those at a higher socioeconomic level to profit (I thought about things like CEO wages being around 278 times the amount of their average worker, the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, and Citizens United). The "you" manipulates the middle class into thinking the country is a meritocracy where hard work and merit can translate into success, yet the current reality differs.