WHAT WILL AMAZON DESTROY NEXT??? Oliver Ackermann (APTBS) asks Stacy Mitchell (ILSR)

What will Amazon do once it’s eaten every other business, automated every process, and none of us have any money to buy their products? To find out, musician Oliver Ackermann (A Place To Bury Strangers) interviews Stacy Mitchell, co-director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, a national research and advocacy organization that fights corporate control and works to build thriving, equitable communities. She inspires him to create a new song ‘Always Gonna Be The Same’.  

Stream the song: https://ffm.to/AlwaysGonnaBeTheSame

          

 

 

ALWAYS GONNA BE THE SAME

I could spin a story that would make you freak

But I’m not thinking of ways to manipulate you - I don’t hate you

I just want you to enjoy your life

And I hope you’re a really good potato - Kato

I don’t wanna live in a stupid world

I don’t wanna live under their control

I don’t wanna buy all their useless shit

That should just be thrown in a giant pit

I don’t wanna be hooked on all these drugs

Pushed to fund someone's expensive rugs

I just wanna live and have some fun

I don’t need to feel like I have won

Cuz it’s gross

They’re lying to our faces

It’s a show

They stripped away their regulations

What we don’t know

Is that they multiplied their operations

So if we don’t vote

Then its always gonna be the same

Someone’s gotta play the adult in the room - with a broom

We can’t let these greedy fuckers take another dime - waste of time

I would rather be out on vacation - in another nation

But we seem to be living with some bad potatoes - Kato

I don’t wanna live in their stupid world

I don’t wanna live under their control

I don’t wanna buy all this useless shit

That should just be thrown in a giant pit

I don’t wanna be hooked on all their drugs

Pushed to fund someone's expensive rugs

I just wanna help out my fellow man

Any fucking way that I can

Cuz it’s gross

They’re lying to our faces

And it’s low

They bought a house with our donations

What we don’t know

Is that they buried all the allegations

So if we don’t vote

Then its always gonna be the same