AutoVerks

Had an online discussion with a friend about the Luddites. Today, we face a future where, with every worker replaced by robots, all the Fruits of the Loom and all the self driving cars will be unaffordable to the unemployed, and all that cheap robot made stuff will pile up unsold, 'cause robots don't buy stuff. 


AutoVerks

My name is Yon Yonson,
I live in Wisconsin,
I verk at the AutoVerks plant


I verk 9 to 5,
Cheap wage keeps me alive,
I’m a cog in a car making giant

I valk to my verk,
Though I feel like a jerk,
I am saving to buy me a car

But wid’ kids and a wife,
And all normal life’s strife,
What I make ‘dere does not go so far

AutoVerks had an idea,
Dat dey test in the media,
To make people mistakes obsolete

Dey’ll make self driving cars,
Dat go near and go far,
And vill keep people safe on der street!

I show up to verk von day,
They give the severance pay,
And make new auto-cars by machine

They lay us off in lots
Put in Asian robots
And the plant’s running lean and sooo clean

Now I can’t buy dat car,
So I has to walk far
To see if ‘dere’s vork in ‘de town

And vid out any jobs,
Ve’re awl dirty poor slobs,
Who cannot afford AutoVerks cars!


Wid no jobs and no money,
It don’t seem all dat funny,
Dat robot cars is all going unsold!

As I valk down the street,
It’s a constant ‘beep beep,’
From ‘dese no people cars running ‘round!

And ‘dere’s so many of ‘em,
Run in packs by the dozens,
I risk life ven I valk out in street!