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.