The New Fade Will Pay You Not to Work (Some Exclusions Apply)

no, seriously

there's a strong impulse
to believe that
"every member of society
must carry their own weight"

but wouldn't you know it?

the more money you make
the less work you have to do

the idea is responsibility,
that the "more" you have
the more you're worth

and no, i don't understand
that logic either

responsibility to me
is a privilege and therefore
something that should
be earned and not simply
rewarded

responsibility is an abstract concept,
since those who support
responsibility have as much
responsibility as those
who are supposed to have
responsibility

we live in the 21st century
in the time of the New Fade
in which virtually everything
is recorded and even John Doe
has a name and so yes,
it's very hard to say that
there are now definite and
impenetrable divides between
those who have responsibility
and, well, those who have
responsibility

we don't live in times that
so easily bend toward the will
of dictators, no matter how small
and inconsequential,
except in the power they
are allowed to have

i'm not talking unions
or communism

i'm talking about basic
human
dignity

so yeah, it's a little stupid
to say today that everyone
must work and that some of
those who do should be paid
more for doing less
just because of responsibility

or rather

the illusion of control

because at the end of the day
it's the end of the day
for everyone
and it doesn't matter
how much money you have
you need sleep and you will
in all probability dream
and that's something we all do

so just maybe, you ought
to indulge a little more of that

because no two dreams
are the same