BTW CAR I do agree with your points about the country being at the mercy of capital and all that, corruption, etc etc…. No argument there. Nothing fictional about that.
However there are literally billions of bodies on this planet available for labor and fewer and fewer that have capital. Thus the value of labor is what drives wages down. Not the needs of those willing to do the labor. If you guys want to place a higher value on labor then what it should be then so be it, I simply disagree.