{"id":143,"date":"2016-05-07T00:17:12","date_gmt":"2016-05-07T00:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mulbert.com\/?p=143"},"modified":"2018-03-16T23:49:21","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T23:49:21","slug":"mulberts-brief-history-of-economics-and-the-coming-of-the-second-machine-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mulbert.com\/?p=143","title":{"rendered":"Mulbert’s Brief History Of Economics And The Coming Of The Second Machine Age"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For anybody not wanting to spend \u00a32 plus postage on what is probably the shortest and cheapest history of economics ever written in rhyme, I have recorded it so you can listen to the whole thing on Soundcloud\u00a0https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/stream<\/a>. \u00a0Or you could\u00a0click here<\/a>\u00a0to buy the booklet.<\/p>\n

I have posted the first part of the poem below:<\/p>\n

Come the revolution<\/p>\n

my life will be less hectic<\/p>\n

and to minimise pollution<\/p>\n

my car will be electric<\/p>\n

furthermore, I\u2019m thinking<\/p>\n

the car will drive itself<\/p>\n

and just like no one ever<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll have parcels on my shelf.<\/p>\n

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And the car will speak to me<\/p>\n

in celebrity voices<\/p>\n

which I can change daily<\/p>\n

for it\u2019s fun to have choices<\/p>\n

perhaps I will plump for<\/p>\n

the Nelson Mandela<\/p>\n

or boisterous Brian Blessed<\/p>\n

or Snoop, the rapper fella<\/p>\n

or the sexy soft tones of<\/p>\n

Marilyn Monroe<\/p>\n

boop-boop-be-doop<\/p>\n

that\u2019s how she used to go.<\/p>\n

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And unlike my current car<\/p>\n

(an idle French bastard)<\/p>\n

it<\/em> will have a mini bar<\/p>\n

so that I may get plastered<\/p>\n

and it<\/em> will change the gears<\/p>\n

do the braking\u00a0and the steering<\/p>\n

and serve me cool beers<\/p>\n

for I shall do the beering<\/p>\n

whilst relaxing in the back<\/p>\n

just listening to The Archers<\/p>\n

and every single time<\/p>\n

a cop car goes past us<\/p>\n

I shall flick them the Vs<\/p>\n

those pesky traffic cops<\/p>\n

but they\u2019ll be too busy<\/p>\n

guzzling vodka shots<\/p>\n

and pints of Old Peculiar<\/p>\n

for their<\/em> panda cars<\/p>\n

will also drive themselves<\/p>\n

and have their own minibars<\/p>\n

as they cruise the city streets<\/p>\n

with surreptitious stealth<\/p>\n

seeking out skulduggery<\/p>\n

and the stealers of wealth<\/p>\n

like the muggers, and the robbers<\/p>\n

and the fun-loving criminal<\/p>\n

the coppers may be rat-arsed<\/p>\n

but their workload will be minimal.<\/p>\n