Did we not all arrive in the very same way?

Are we not all from a man’s seed?

Were we not all born from a woman’s womb?

Are we not all humans? Do we not all bleed?

 

So how can one man be worth a six digit figure?

Hundreds of thousands every year?

While another is worth five pounds eighty an hour?

An existence with very little cheer.

 

There have to be differentials, I am told,

I concede this to a degree.

But if you justify one how can you the other?

Such a difference seems ludicrous to me.

 

Do we not all have the same wants and needs?

Are prices not the same for all?

Workers deserve decent standards of living,

Not a pittance with a continual fall.

 

And to make matters worse, it’s the fat cats

Who are getting all the cream

That decide their workers can manage on

A wage so low it’s a scream.

 

They deserve their huge salaries, they tell us,

Because they are so much cleverer, and sage.

Yet they can’t be as clever; I bet they could not

Cope on national minimum wage.