Wage Rises ‘cause inflation’ but,
Share Dividends fund wealth;
Executive large Pay awards,
Show rude investment health.
High Salaries ‘incentivise’,
Share Pay outs ‘motivate’;
But Pay Claims prove that workers lives
Are far too profligate!
The Bosses bonuses are good,
But workers good pay’s bad;
As profits then will go downhill,
Which makes the wealthy sad!
The Stock Exchange invests their cash,
And Bankers help it grow;
By taking all the money stock,
And helping it to flow.
Inducements only are a spur,
If you’re a rich Celeb;
A Honcho or Executive,
But not a lowly pleb.1
Us working folk, we only need
A patriotic call;
To make us rapidly forget,
That we possess sod-all
- A derogatory aristocratic description of a worker.
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