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When everything we eat or use
Is made by others far removed -
They’re paid peanuts for the things we need
Whilst we indulge the obscene greed
Of those who have no hesitation
In profiting from this exploitation.
An economy lacking common sense
Enters the last days of decadence.
We can’t go on like this.
When undervalued key workers say
That they struggle financially day by day,
What’s the message given to a smart young kid
If you can earn ten million quid
From a YouTube channel, where you gain your fame
From being able to play some video game?
When all a whole generation sees
Is talentless celebrities
Making fortunes from the latest fad
Then we must have gone completely mad.
Have we learnt nothing from the past?
This way of living cannot last.
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A Zero Sum Game
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A factory collapses in Bangladesh -
The price that’s paid for the clothes we buy.
They build business empires on the bodies of the poor.
The rich get richer - the poor just die.
Capitalism is a zero sum game.
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There are people who want you to believe
That the system is working, but we’re not so naïve.
There are people who want you to think
That everything’s sweet - if you can ignore the stink.
There are those who expect us to be
Content with the failings they seem too blind to see.
This capitalist system will always ensure
That there’s an endless supply of the desperately poor.
If the truth’s an inconvenience
It’s just airbrushed out of the picture.
If they don’t like the consequence
It’s just airbrushed out of the picture.
They don’t want you to see the connections,
So they’re airbrushed out of the picture.
The inconsistencies can’t stand close inspection,
So they’re airbrushed out of the picture.
They talk of success, and ignore the mess -
The victims forgotten by a system that’s rotten.
Airbrushed out of the picture.
Where are the thinkers who don’t wear the blinkers?
Where are the voices who offer us choices?
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