Why Republicans Are Opposed to Supporting the Poor - An Open Secret

[MineralMan]

14. That's pretty much it.

With slavery, you had to house and feed the workers. Today, you can pay workers little and let them work out their own housing, food and other needs. They show up for work, and then you can forget about them the rest of the time. That was probably the real reason slavery ended.

How much to pay them? Just enough to let them live and be healthy enough to work for you. Since there is a constant supply of workers, you don't have to bother with anything more than that. Healthcare is unnecessary, since you can replace a sick or dead worker with no trouble. Retirement isn't an issue, since workers who are too old to be productive can just be turned out and replaced with fresh ones.

It's an ugly way of doing things, but it appears to be how the oligarchy wants to do things. And this applies to almost any workers, including skilled ones. As long as you have a ready pool of people to fill your jobs, you can pay as little as possible to keep them flowing through your system.