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In reply to the discussion: "Sorry, It's Not a 'Law of Capitalism' That You Pay Your Employees as Little as Possible. It's..." [View all]blackspade
(10,056 posts)and living in squalor in corporate and government high rise slums?
The ones that are daily exposed to harsh working conditions for slave wages.
The ones daily exposed to chemicals that cause cancer and other health issues?
The ones that make all of this worthless shit that Walmart sells around the world for staggering profits that they never see?
It's called exploitation. Being given crumbs in return does not make it less so.
As for this country, we now have the worst income disparity in generations and is getting worse, not better. Corporations control the levers of power for their own benefit because money is now speech. Capitalism exploits workers for the benefit of the capitalist classes. The gains workers have made over the last century are not due to capitalism, but in spite of it. Unions, protests, and left wing agitators made these things happen.