Garrison's Library
Saturday, September 19, 2026
Alfred Konuwa: Master of (Sock) Puppets
Jobs and the Economy
There’s so much more to life than jobs and the economy
I say it with my whole chest and I make no apologies
Life should be enjoyable even if you’re unemployable
Make peace with this mantra and you’ll be undestroyable
You can call it socialism, but I call it being human
What good is your cash if you’re not going to use it
To treat yourself every once in a Blue Moon
To vanilla ice cream and hot fudge on a spoon
To a movie theater flick filled with kung fu kicks
To a river boat date with your favorite blond chick
The suits chuckle it off like a Facebook Nazi
Hitting the laugh react button for a child’s dead body
Smoldering with ashes from an Israeli rocket bomb
About five seconds after crying for his mom
Lacking empathy is the weirdest flex I’ve heard
Suits are like serial killers plucking feathers off a bird
Then they play the victim when nobody wants to work
For a boss who keeps order by going berserk
Flipping burgers and making fries is not an identity
And being unemployed doesn’t make you my enemy
Capitalism’s made up, we pulled it out of our asses
We put random-ass people in random-ass classes
This dude is rich and the other’s dirt poor
This chick’s a prostitute, but this bootlicker’s a whore
It didn’t have to be this way, but we passively accepted
The whole damn story so that we cannot be rejected
By a society that never gave one single shit
If you’re down on your luck, passed out in the pit





