Feudalism Redux
- July 19, 2023
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That was a different world. Don't dream that It will return. Your parents never knew it, Though their parents did: an age of decent Wages, pensions, health insurance, affluence In households where one parent only had to Leave each day for work. In time, machines Assumed the jobs. The unions fell apart. The pensions and the benefits evaporated. All the money went to owners of those Damned machines. They're up there, In their gated compounds, rich and growing Ever richer, as you scrounge for shitty Jobs, at shitty wages, serving them. The middle class? A thing of legend. All that's left are those whose lives Are financed through their ownership Of capital they didn't make, and, in fact, Cannot operate. Like medieval landed Nobles, they're sustained by property, While everybody else subsists on scraps: This era's serfs. © Lawrence Beck 2023
Douglas Moody
5 months agoThanks Lawrence; as always you go straight to the core of the issue. And you are so right, that we now live in the age of ever increasing disparity between the rich elite and the growing poor. And it is not only in the developing countries, just look around where we are.
Mike
4 months agoYou have so easily served the truth by the means of words, in such simple words you have said such deep things. I mean we are part of it, I mean I come from a middle-class family and it has just gotten tougher and tougher to survive. Working the whole day for 6 days a week still struggling to lead a happy life, and them relaxing in their ac offices and chairs and earning millions off the backs of politicians. It is just sad and unfortunate. You have described my pain and lots of others. I appreciate your work. thanks.
Allen Ansell
2 months agoI applauded this poem on PoetBay, Lawrence. As usual you have hot the nail on the head with a direct and assured narrative. Thank you so much for sharing this with us. Blessings, Allen
Ganesh
2 months agoI do come from a middle-class background, where my father works day and night very hard to take care of the family. He has a lot of talent, but the managers ignore that and don’t ever pay much attention to the employees under their supervision. In a world of evil, if we want to be good and honest, we have to fight very hard for what we want.