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Where does it all come from?
Those trillions of dollars
Lining the ever-heavier pockets
Of those few men on Earth
International consortiums?
Stock markets?
Huge banks?
Thin air?
Look deeper
Peel the onion
Find the sources
Uncover the chains of transactions
The unseen mark-ups
The invisible percentages
On billions of transactions
With billions of common people
It all comes from us
One way or another
Sooner or later
Every penny