Mammon’s Mantra (finance)
Small industries amalgamate
and streamlined now we operate:
outsource, downsize and automate.
Competition we obliterate.
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From this, huge profits emanate.
Stockholders hail the chief magnate:
a demigod we adulate
although he’s found to peculate.
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Since companies self-regulate
their price tags tend to escalate
which leaves us all to contemplate
outstanding debts as they inflate.
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Big chain stores have funds to regrate
which helps us to potentiate.
False bargains interpenetrate
consumers who desiderate.
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Some financiers prognosticate
on spending we should concentrate,
but others strongly intimate
it makes more sense to curb the spate.
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On markets, punters speculate;
hope dividends quadruplicate.
A windfall we anticipate.
Our surplus needs we satiate.
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Though if the bank should designate
we’ve nothing to hypothecate
we need not rant and get irate.
Bankruptcy we can auspicate.
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