Work, or the status-esteem game

Nowhere else is the doing of nothing
Paid so well as the workplace
The less accomplished the greater the reward
For salaries are not cut for patience
Cuts are made to the exerting
Be of our values, passively screeched
A meticulous path to walk
Step on the stones that offer no resistance
Theatrically resist the turtles
Your performance feeds on its earnestness
The genuine article, vanity's fair bonfire
Be cruel, but only randomly
Be fair, but only to power
Dictate your actions to others
And you're winning this Darwinian life