What will Amazon do once it’s eaten every other business, automated every process, and none of us have any money to buy their products? To find out, musician Oliver Ackermann (A Place To Bury Strangers) interviews Stacy Mitchell, co-director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, a national research and advocacy organization that fights corporate control and works to build thriving, equitable communities. She inspires him to create a new song ‘Always Gonna Be The Same’.  




Stream the song: https://ffm.to/AlwaysGonnaBeTheSame




I could spin a story that would make you freak


But I’m not thinking of ways to manipulate you - I don’t hate you


I just want you to enjoy your life


And I hope you’re a really good potato - Kato


I don’t wanna live in a stupid world


I don’t wanna live under their control


I don’t wanna buy all their useless shit


That should just be thrown in a giant pit


I don’t wanna be hooked on all these drugs


Pushed to fund someone's expensive rugs


I just wanna live and have some fun


I don’t need to feel like I have won


Cuz it’s gross


They’re lying to our faces


It’s a show


They stripped away their regulations


What we don’t know


Is that they multiplied their operations


So if we don’t vote


Then its always gonna be the same


Someone’s gotta play the adult in the room - with a broom


We can’t let these greedy fuckers take another dime - waste of time


I would rather be out on vacation - in another nation


But we seem to be living with some bad potatoes - Kato


I don’t wanna live in their stupid world


I don’t wanna live under their control


I don’t wanna buy all this useless shit


That should just be thrown in a giant pit


I don’t wanna be hooked on all their drugs


Pushed to fund someone's expensive rugs


I just wanna help out my fellow man


Any fucking way that I can


Cuz it’s gross


They’re lying to our faces


And it’s low


They bought a house with our donations


What we don’t know


Is that they buried all the allegations


So if we don’t vote


Then its always gonna be the same

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