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Division of Labour

from Ensonglopedia of the Human by John Hinton

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Division of labour
Is a human behaviour,
The great separator
Between tinker and tailor,
The slave and the slaver,
The soldier, the sailor,
Life-taker, life-saver,
Curator, engraver,
The waiter, the baker,
Sign-maker, art faker,
Stock-trader, muck-raker
Or cake decorator.

Job job got a job
Have you got a job job job?
Do you earn a bob bob
To put food in your gob?

Way back at the inception
Of civilisation,
People formed a conception
That specialisation
Would improve mankind’s mission
For global domination,
And the lower professions
Would know their station.

It benefits the rich,
Who just get richer.
For the rest it is a stitch-
Up, a ceaseless stricture.
It created the class-system,
Caste-system, vast schisms.
It feels like part and parcel of our essence
But it isn’t.
At heart, we’re hunter-gatherers,
Those are our parameters;
It’s not in our characters
To let managers manage us.

Job job got a job
Have you got a job job job?
Do you earn a bob bob
To put food in your gob?

I mean, we probs had jobs,
Assigned by age or gender,
But a life of making door knobs
Was not on the agenda.
Division of labour
Is not our saviour.
I will not be defined
By the trade I have on paper.

Of course it’s true that if we had no labour division
There’s zero chance that I’d be a professional musician.
It’s thanks to others doing jobs that don’t really appeal
That I don’t have to sharpen spears and hunt my next meal.

But let’s have the gumption
To challenge the assumption
That a job’s a job for life
Cos that’s not how humans function.
For some, life is luxury.
For others, it’s a drudgery.
We won’t get equality
While some jobs are compulsory.
Don’t be told by some old fuddy-duddy:
Study whatever you want to study.

Job job got a job
Have you got a job job job?
Do you earn a bob bob
To put food in your gob?

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from Ensonglopedia of the Human, released July 18, 2021

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