The Programmer

We had a lot to do with the collapse.
We were enablers. We made theft easy,
hidden, pervasive. We built the brains
of the machine that burned it all away.

But ultimately we redeemed ourselves.
Most people agree that without second
world tech we would all just stifle away
in the fields, gossiping in the hot sun.

We have a global culture because of us,
and the hardware guys too, I suppose.
They did some. I have to admit the self
fabricating network was quite a trick.

We keep it all transparent, free, and open.
We have to for people to trust the labor banks
and the watchers making sure, as the old
song says, we don't get fooled again.