Poem: The Logic of Success
Find someone else to do the actual work for you
While you sit in a chair
Pay this person less than their labor is worth
Add value to their labor by doing clever things
Such as advertising and storytelling
Conjure fantastical tales of how beneficial and sexy it would be to drink
South Pacific water shipped across the ocean
Arriving like salvation
Making the drinker’s life altogether better and certainly more sophisticated than
The average tap-slurping worker type
Who made the plastic bottle and put the liquid inside and carried it to a truck
Unloading it and loading it and unloading it until
Something that started out being free
Now magically costs several dollars
Because you have to pay for quality
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