CO-OPERATING TO COMPETE!

CO-OPERATING TO COMPETE!

If human society can agree to co-operate to compete,

there’s no reason why it can't agree to just co-operate.

Co-operating to compete,

Is what we humans do;

So why not just co-operate,

And forge a world anew?

Co-operation's what's made us,

The force we have become;

Then to compete when there's enough,

For all, is wholly dumb!

All competition's the result,
Of just the grasping few;

Who in the war to grab some more,

Kid us we need to too.

The man on Clapham's omnibus,

Has no stake in this war;

He gets the under table crumbs,

Whoever he works for.

And competition's a cliché,

For false efficiency;

As sending coal to Newcastle,

Shows its deficiency.

Our Earth is big enough for all,

There is enough to share;

We don't need businesses to flog,

Their market laissez-faire.

© Richard Layton