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gottlieb - scarcity lyrics

in the 1930’s, an economist named john keynes
predicted that by the end of the 1900’s
americans would be working fifteen hours a week

keynes was a capitalist who predicted leaps in innovation
that would lead to a world in which people didn’t have to work
to have what they needed to live:
food, water, shelter and clothing
for the most part, he was right

by mid+century the green revolution was in effect
and has spared one billion people of starvation
the world isn’t perfect, but global issuеs of poverty and hunger
are in a far bеtter place than they’ve ever been

what he failed to predict
was the unrelenting side of capitalist innovation

consumerism hit the nation hard in the 1950’s and ever since
income inequality has gotten far worse
despite having the essentials for people to live
we are working more than we ever have
to support this unnecessary overabundance of products
demanded by american consumerism
and a false scarcity created by a one+sided distribution of resources
we are so far removed from the actual idea of “earning a living,”
we use the term to explain why 90% of us spend our lives making profits
for the top 1% that own everything

the only thing we’re “earning” is more merchandise for a sick, spoiled culture
and ceo’s that can’t profit enough from it

we are not an artificial intelligence

what part of getting a new phone every year is a f+cking living?
what part of working for wal+mart is a f+cking living?
what part of trying to look busy at a desk is a f+cking living?
who’s living are we working to sustain?
how does it feel to be the latest innovation of a broken f+cking system?
how productive is your self+destruction?

how free do you feel in a work+culture of burnout, heart disease, anxiety, poverty and depression?
capitalism is finished

hypocrisy
scarcity
if we’re really being honest
what’d we trade for f+cking objects?
hypocrisy
scarcity
if we’re really being honest
what’d we trade for f+cking objects?
me and my pals all got our degrees
we’re lucky to work seventy+hour weeks
that eight+hundred bucks is time well spent
and a life well+traded for this month’s rent

so don’t you try to bullsh+t ’bout efficient ergonomics
reducing my potential down to pushing little b+ttons
call it the merit of earning a living
feeding hedonistic adaptation

fifteen hours
bed by ten
burn both ends
and do it again

god bless american capitalism
for cutting the brakes on commodification
the incentive to make is all we got
with no incentive to f+cking stop

streaming, phones and fashion that’s designed for obsolescence
look at all the poverty that’s come from our abundance
lemme work for cheap for my whole life
to feed a star+spangled appetite

- gottlieb lyrics

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