Boss made a dollar
I made a dime
That was a poem
From a simpler time.

Now boss makes a thousand
And gives us a cent
While he's got employees
Who can't pay the rent.

So when boss makes a million
And the workers make jack
That's when we strike
And take our lives back.

@ned Excellent modern take on a classic.

I’ve been staring at the “I” in “I Make”, in which you’ve substituted “|” . I was wondering why you did that? My first guess was watermarking or sabotage throw off AI scrapers.

Or should I interpret it as relating to the theme of the poem somehow?

@Haste @ned good eye 👁! I hadn't noticed until you pointed out that the parent post poem has a "pipe" character "|", in a place where a capital letter "I" might otherwise be expected.

@mcrocker @Haste
Haha! This is a common issue with the Detect from Image function for alt-text. I often use that to do a quick OCR of text from an image, which works well most of the time but always uses a | instead of an isolated I (as in "me") but can properly recognize an I when alongside other letters (ie, AI). :D

I try to correct this manually (along with spaces, carriage returns, etc.), but sometimes I miss some, as they are quite visually similar. Fixed now, along with a missing return.

@ned @mcrocker

That’s so interesting. Thanks for teaching me!