C.E.O.

Each day I climb the ladder

Wearing suit and tie

Whilst kicking those below

Smiling as I tell my lies

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I lie, I cheat, I obfuscate

Use any means at my disposal

No matter who I hurt

So long as I get the proposal

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For I am a businessman

Sight set on CEO

While millions may suffer

I’ll rake in the dough

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Research says this drug is not ready?

But it’ll bring in millions of dollars?

So, yes, put it on the shelf

While I iron my snow white collar

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This may cause cancer in a decade?

But it’ll increase the profit margins?

So we’ll release it for consumers

Deal later with what it harkens

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We’ll make earth uninhabitable in a century?

So what? I won’t be here to care

My great grandkids can deal with the result

So long as I’m wealthy, all is right and fair

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I’m responsible for millions of deaths

Diseases, addictions, accidents, cancers

But my bank account is stuffed with money

And I’m off to the financiers

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Why should I care what my actions cause?

People are just walking guinea pigs

So long as I rake in large profits

They can worry about their own gigs

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Am I a criminal? A sociopath perhaps?

Of course not, I’m just a man of business

Doing what makes my company richer

As the good lord is my witness

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I rest easy at night without a care

Despite the pain and suffering I cause

Since I’m not breaking any real laws

You got a problem, rewrite the clause

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The above was inspired by Atomic Historian’s poem Criminals: