Money - Pink Floyd Lyrics: Inflation and the Shadow of Capitalist Society

Money
Money
Get away
Run away

You get a good job with more pay and you’re okay
If you get a good job and your salary increases, that's fine.

Money
Money
It’s a gas
It's great

Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash
Grab that cash with both hands and stash it away

New car, caviar, four star, daydream
New car, caviar, four-star, daydream
Think I’ll buy me a football team
I think I'll buy a football team

Money
Money
Get back
Get back

I’m alright, Jack, keep your hands off of my stack
I'm alright, Jack, keep your hands off my stack

Money
Money
It’s a hit
It's a hit

Don’t give me that do goody good bullshit
Don't give me that hypocritical nonsense

I’m in the high-fidelity first-class traveling section
I'm in the high-fidelity first-class traveling section
And I think I need a Lear jet
And I think I need a Lear jet

Money
Money
It’s a crime
It's a crime

Share it fairly, but don’t take a slice of my pie
Share it fairly, but don't take a slice of my pie

Money
Money
So they say
They say

Is the root of all evil today
Is the root of all evil today

But if you ask for a rise
But if you ask for a raise
It’s no surprise that they’re giving none away
It's no surprise that they're giving none away

Away, away, away
Away, away, away
Away, away, away
Away, away, away

I was in the right
I was in the right
Yes, absolutely in the right
Yes, absolutely in the right
I certainly was in the right
I certainly was in the right
Yeah, I was definitely in the right, that geezer was cruisin’ for a bruisin’
Yeah, I was definitely in the right, that geezer was cruisin’ for a bruisin’

Yeah!
Yeah!

Why does anyone do anything?
Why does anyone do anything?

I don’t know, I was really drunk at the time
I don't know, I was really drunk at the time

Just telling him it was in, he could get it in number two
Just telling him it was in, he could get it in number two

He was asking why it wasn’t coming up on freight 11
He was asking why it wasn't coming up on freight 11

And after, I was yelling and screaming and telling him why
And after, I was yelling and screaming and telling him why
It wasn’t coming up on freight eleven
It wasn't coming up on freight eleven

At that time, the US was experiencing hyperinflation.
This led to social chaos, so much so that a "Red Purge" was carried out in the US afterward.
Although they were a British band, their popularity in the US was likely due to this historical context.

Also, around this time, the UK was on the verge of several years of unemployment rates exceeding 10%, and it too recorded astonishing inflation.
Similarly, the German band La Düsseldorf, from the same period, also created songs about anxiety regarding the future brought by machines during the Industrial Revolution of the 1970s.

https://soulminingrig.com/blog/krautrock-la-dusseldorf-see-the-future/

In a sense, the lyrics are ironic about being bound by money, perhaps a satire on the flashy advertisements of famous artists or companies on luxury passenger planes or cargo planes of that era.

Even back then, it seems that sounds other than instruments were rarely incorporated into songs, so in a sense, Pink Floyd was a pioneer, and they likely included them purely for expressive purposes.

Are we also in a similar situation today?