Wednesday, February 18, 2026

Socialist Sonnet No. 223

Quotidian Fallacy

 

Volunteering must be unnatural,

Most certainly a contradiction indeed

Of that basic human motivation, greed!

A person’s worth is measured by the deal

Securing the highest price for work done,

While any employer will want to see

How much work can be extracted for free:

Surely no one will work a shift for fun?

Astonishingly, there are those who say

The world should turn on freely meeting needs,

All working together and no one leads;

People choosing to live a different way.

But stopping human nature from rearing?

About as likely as volunteering!

 

D. A.

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