The Market

The invisible hand of the market will control everything. Or so they say. The market does magic and it gives us bliss. It regulates itself and the less interference, the better it will function. We're meant to believe that the market acts independently of any decisions taken by conscious human beings. Yet what is the result?

We have excess of food and hungry people. Clothes in the shops and people in rags. There's a scarcity of water and drunken binges. Books on sale and illiterate people. There are obese people in a world of malnutrition. Shops full of products and empty pockets. Smiles on adverts and miserable lives. We're led by lifestyles instead of leading lives. We have cool ACs and global warming. We have poison smoke coming out of hospital chimneys. We have free movement of capital but not of humans. We have homeless people and empty houses. We build stations in space and destroy forests on earth. We have limited resources and unlimited weapons. We have colour TVs but black and white visions. We talk of liberty but live in chains. We speak of democracy in authoritarian lives. We live in dreams and dream of lives. We satisfy wants not unfulfilled needs.

The market rules! Our world that is. Three cheers for the jolly sod. Hip hype, hooray! Hip hype, hooray! Hip hype, hooray!