Our Founding Myth

We were free. We used the resources
around us to live. We exchanged our
labor and worked together in groups.
We learned and explored and made.

But some got others to do their work.
It couldn't go far until the surpluses,
but with the surpluses force and
fraud grew, and the big scam.

Some brilliant con defined property,
adding control and income to use.
The logic expanded from land to objects
to money to ideas to life itself.

Rent, profit, interest, speculation fueled
the machine and the rich rose and the
poor sank and the machine ground and
burned and consumed the whole world.