Evolution of slaves to the cheap workforce. -Opinion-
During the early industrialization, factory owners figured out that slaves can not be pushed to learn how to use complicated machines due to a lack of motivation. so they had to figure out how to motivate people to work long hours, on complicated machines and with higher efficiency than salves.
The solution was to pay them enough to barely survive but to put survival on people, so they have to accept inhuman conditions due to the pure survival of themselves and their families. That way ex-slave owners were relaxed from supplying food and housing for worker's families, but they got a "motivated" workforce that would not destroy means of production as their own life were depending on them. By keeping the numbers of unemployed people relatively high so they had the meaning of blackmailing people into working for very low wages.
Few revolutions after and 200 years later we are in the same situation, as industry owners are again blackmailing people into cheap workforce by high unemployment numbers but in the same time prices of goods are higher than ever due to the destruction of small production that was always helping local people to survive.
What is even worse is that banks are in partnership with industry owners and they push debts on the working force so they are not ever in a situation that they can change jobs easily as they have to pay debts every month and if they can't they will lose homes and in most cases families will be broken.
Solution... theoretical one is the change of the economic system, the realistic are the wars, as usual, because we do not think before we destroy. We only hope that after the next war it will be better than before.
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