Labor's a Commodity, like Fish

Music: Gigue and Air de ballet dans le style ancien, op. 24: Gigue
By Charles Henri Valentin Alkan.
Sequenced by Segundo G. Yogore at
Kunst der Fuge. 

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Labor’s a commodity, like fish,

As children are fast-frozen and filleted,

Beating down the price. Fortunes are made

On selling to us all so cheap a dish.

Remember how the world is being run,

Determined by the market’s iron laws

As slaves and children jingle in its jaws.

Yet there is nothing, nothing to be done.

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