It hasn't always been the case that workers fought like starving rats over jobs.

and that TPTB enjoy it, being sadists and predators. This is exactly why they are creating these conditions.

scraps then they aren't paying any attention to TPTBs.

if they're rightfully frightened of being fired immediately for so doing.

Employers would even try to entice entry-level employees away from other companies by offering better pay, working conditions, and benefits.

Now we have "interns" competing for no-pay work and people standing in line to apply for crappy less-than-subsistence wage work.

We could easily fix this by increasing taxes on the wealthy, raising minimum wages, and increasing welfare and unemployment benefits to people who can't work or can't find work.

People with lower incomes spend their money on goods and services that directly increase the number of jobs. Very wealthy people play their money in markets that are largely computer games and most of that money never "trickles down" to the rest of us.