Are you doing AnYthing?
I have come to the realisation that i am part of something very horrendous. AND there is very little i can do about it...you see i am a victim of circumstance (along with many thousand others). Social circumstances have me in need of a job - and after many years of profiteering there are major brands out in the Western World that are creating a vicious circle that will ultimately lead to a destruction of unknown proportions - and i am bereft to say that i am now part of that.
Large corporations, such as Shell (petroleum), Coles Myer Group, Walmart - the list goes on....create unique low skill service jobs (lets not forget the fast food companies here because they are forerunners in this problem) that underpin and undercut any local - independant competition due to market saturation and being able to run at individual store loss to run at company gain - expansionism. However the problem lies within wages and the workforce. The idea - phrase - is that those who work in these small service industries are students who dont really need a job and are in a midpoint of sorts - a stepping stone if you will. Now the problem is that the companies pay the minimum wage and the students do not complain, thus there is no Union - because the thought is that the workforce is forever lucid and there is no real need for job security or representation.
Here, in the lack of knowledge, the first step to the cycle begins. The job that some people are willing to keep - and others must keep because there is nowhere to step onto (these larger companies now outsource all of the manufacturing and assortment to cheap labour in the third world and are downsizing middle management to bare bones) - has nowhere to go, no up position, and does not pay living wages. Therefore the argument that the low wages are justified because the workforce moves onward is self justified in as much as the wage cannot support a parent or single student living in a city.
The service industry is forever growing larger in today's first world nations due to the economic globalisation process that sees production, modification, manufacturing, and assembling done in sweatshops within EPZs (economy protection zones) that benefit no economy nor pay any taxes to any govt. Slowly the first world's corporate giants. of brand and image, are claiming no longer minds and dollars but space and law. Society itself is shaping toward the efficiency of the corporate dollar - society is losing its power to shape because people are now buying their identity and losing their ability to come together within their own terms under their own banner. The Marxist argument of production and people is defeated by not removing the two but making their relationship obsolete.