DESCRIPTION:
From the Phratry Records release, "Let It Come From Whom It May" (2013)

Download the entire record for free at http://tyrannyistyranny.bandcamp.com

The boom-and-bust cycles of capitalism are not some sort of aberration in an otherwise healthy system. They are an integral and inherent part of the larger social and economic crisis. As the downturns become longer and more severe, economic growth can only be regained after more and more capital is destroyed or drastically debased, a process that causes untold dehumanizing misery. And then the cycle begins again. This process is driven purely by profit motive in a fundamentally chaotic system that becomes ever more unstable.

Steady as she sinks
Boom and bust
A bare existence
Numbed by lust
How much is enough?

It's not a crisis
They told you so
The market's alright
Just needs to grow
How much is enough?

Expanding markets in the ghetto line
We'll move some products and we'll save some time
How much is enough?

It's not a simple turn
Thrashing in the water
Relationships obscure
Thrashing in the water
Your town is owned by thieves
Thrashing in the water

Video footage from Cities: Why They Grow (public domain from The Prelinger Archive).
https://archive.org/details/cities_why_they_grow
https://archive.org/details/prelinger