Finance Factories

Written 6/2016-not about my current job

The Wall Street Journal says the output of goods and services for each hour has declined,

As if “we the people” pressured to produce are like machines to output like you have designed .

I’m sorry I’ve slowed how fast I produce,

Or rather how quickly I correct the money

That you invest in this country,

governed by stupidity,

when reality TV show star runs for candidacy.

Yes, I’m angry.

Because ignorance destroys lives.

Because I’m not just a number who has slowed down.

And my boss said rather than paying me more to get two jobs and stick around.

And they wonder why my productivity has slowed from friendly to sour,

as they prod me every hour,

with pitch forks and threats;

My productivity quotient in the red.

I’m not on YouTube surfing the net.

I’m not on Facebook ranting about the government.

You can see that on sitting right at my fucking desk.

And someday “we will all be happy”.

There will be a robot doing my job! (Yay!)

Productivity will increase.

(We’ve never seen numbers like this!)

And humanity equal decrease

Or maybe as families starve in joblessness and poverty,

You’ll realize the correlation,

Between human wages and economy

And maybe we’ll both say fuck “productivity”.

Until then, remember, I’m the one you’re minimally paying and asking to “rush”

to handle your financial investments.