The Golden Calf

песня на английском на стихотворение Машины работы лишают людей

Verse 1:
So many different aspirations and new ideas,
Full, as usual, now in people's minds.
Renewals everywhere, novelties in motion,
Running like a carousel before our eyes.
Reforms, ideas are working within us,
Leading away from normal life at times.
More and more often "the golden calf,"
Tired souls it lures with its chimes.

Chorus:
For money, we think, we can buy -
Any problem solved by payment, oh my.
On the surface lies the catch once more,
Nothing measured by a coin, that's God's law.
On the surface lies the catch once more,
Nothing measured by a coin, that's God's law.

Verse 2:
Reduce the costs, increase the sales,
The world of capital makes us obey,
Inflation presses, and prices rise,
Any economy takes first place today.
Add a computer, implement automation,
Profit grows, the establishment's elated.
In the process, some people will fall,
But profit - look! - it's clearly elevated.

Bridge:
Where profit - taxes, homeland's income,
Budget - means, ours will also grow?
Pockets for all, as usual, are their own,
For some - incomes, for others - debts they owe!
Pockets for all, as usual, are their own,
For some - incomes, for others - debts they owe!

Verse 3:
Not the evil businessman who cut the staff,
And new schemes into work did implement,
Not the wise official who again stayed silent,
When his report he habitually sent.
Behind the screen of novelties and different ideas -
Machines are taking jobs from human beings,
Automatons buzz and robots push ahead,
While before, a cashier worked here, it seems.

Verse 4:
Where workers were - again emptiness,
CNC machines and again beauty,
They'll sew, they'll pack, they'll send to order,
Not people - their pace is weaker by a hundred, truly!
They'll sew, they'll pack, they'll send to order,
Not people - their pace is weaker by a hundred, truly!

Verse 5:
Not the manager who saw a new approach,
Not the new Kulibin who created the groundwork, -
Machines are taking jobs from human beings.
Luddites? Oh please, machines are stronger now.
Shines in the sun the golden calf,
And again it will lure the people somehow.
Not to think, really, for everything and for all!
Lost to automation - well, that's a laugh!

Refrain:
A machine doesn't need a salary to pay,
A machine can always be replaced,
A machine won't create problems to make,
When you decide the machine to erase!
A machine won't create problems to make,
When you decide the machine to erase!

Verse 6:
Again someone stands useless on the street,
Yesterday, like you, he still debated.
Machines are taking jobs from human beings?
Or people are becoming simply jaded?
Forward innovations, only forward,
But profit, it seems - already doesn't grow.
Cannot compare "the golden calf"
With life's laws in morality, you know.

Final Refrain:
A machine doesn't need a salary to pay,
A machine can always be replaced,
A machine won't create problems to make,
When you decide the machine to erase!
A machine won't create problems to make,
When you decide the machine to erase!