| Do ya, do ya want me, want me working for free?
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| Come on tell me, do you want my money?
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| Do ya, do ya want me, want me working for free?
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| I can tell the way you’re walking on me
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| Do ya, do ya want me, want me down on my knees?
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| I’m begging you for a wage, please, come on
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| (You get it, you want it, you take it, you got it
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| The value, the labor, the profit, the product)
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| Do ya, do ya want me, want me struggling?
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| Come on, you think that poverty’s a role play, baby?
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| (The worker, the smothered Dickensian sucker
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| The server, subaltern, the self and the other)
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| Do ya, do ya want me, want me working for free?
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| You feel entitled to determine my pay, huh?
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| You want a rock bottom rate ‘cause you’re there to appraise
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| The value of emotional labor? |
| (the value, the labor, the profit, the product)
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| Do ya, do ya want me, want me smiling, cosigned (the worker, the smothered
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| Dickensian sucker)
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| If I bow, is that appropriate behavior? |
| (the server, subaltern, the self and
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| the other)
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| You know, I hear the word of god through the customer’s mouth (the givers,
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| the tippers, the buyers, the users)
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| I survive by the kindness of strangers (the bosses, the wonders, the hired,
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| the doers)
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| This precarious wager, the structural danger (you get it, you want it,
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| you take it, you got it)
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| The uncertain nature, the conscious erasure (the value, the labor, the profit,
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| the product)
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| That’s not a bug that’s a feature
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| When the world’s run through the hands of unpaid labor
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| Excess income trickles up from wealthy interns
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| Who can afford to work for gratis and accumulated status
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| Skipping line to a management wage while their bills are all paid
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| (The givers, the tippers, the buyers, the users
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| The bosses, the owners, the hired, the doers
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| The keepers, the takers, the havers, the favored
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| The leisured, contempt for precarious labor
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| The worker, the smothered Dickensian sucker
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| The server, subaltern, the self and the other
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| Directors, employers, and lobbying lawyers
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| United in making survival untenable) |