They got this high-technology to send shuttles to the moon They got this high-technology to blow up this world in two They got this high-technology to produce more plastic food And they got the high-technology homeless, too.
They got this high-technology to solve math equations quick They got this high-technology to help keep Bill Gates rich They got this high-technology to monitor your every move And they got the high-technology homeless, too.
They got this high-technology to automate the winds of war They got this high-technology to make laid-off workers poor They got this high-technology to solve all problems complex And also they got the high-technology homeless.
They got this high-technology to help “keep Amerika great” They got this high-technology which they want to control our fate They got this high-technology to cover their brutal greed And they got the high-technology homeless in the streets.
The High-Technology Homeless protest folk song was written during the Reagan Era of the 1980s, when the term “yuppies” acquired a negative connotation, the proponents of high-technology promised us that high-technology would soon create a free market/capitalist/corporate-oriented utopia and the number of homeless people in the United States increased dramatically.
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