The Older Stories : The Bonded Labourer

I often wonder what is the difference between bonded labourers and software engineers .
A kid writes an essay about his dream I want to be a software engineer . Parents are happy , if not ..well they'll write it for him.
But I wonder what would have happened if the same kid would have written " i want to be a labourer " , do you think the parents would have been happy or the
teacher would not have given him a strange look . But lo .... the kid wrote the essay ....the kid did his dreams ........... and he is a software engineer
I have seen going away from the kid , slowly ...
health, eagerness to learn , thinking power , basic mathematics , freedom to think ...
and these were the very things which got him here .......
i dont see conversion ratio or bpo's gathering food packets from giants ...
what i see is a kid , who now knows he's nothing more than a labourer ..
and writing an essay is no more an easy act for his words are now jargons , his thoughs are now nebulous ...
with a pain in the neck and strain in the eyes ..
he types .