Workers are are not exempt from economics. When there is a lack of workforce and a large need for jobs the companies pay more and fight to get the better workers. When there are too many workers and not enough jobs the companies can pay the workers whatever they want. It is the law of supply and demand. Complain to the government all you want. They cannot fix it and every try just sends the jobs overseas.
Workers also used to work for 12 hours straight with no benefits whatsoever. Only the labour strikes have enabled certain rights that today people seem to take for granted. Acquiring rights is often accompanied by the sacrifices of gigantic proportions while once they are lost they are almost impossible to regain.
A government's role is to be a balance between the people and the corporations. Since the government is chosen from the people, by the people and for the people then it is only logical to conclude that the government must protect the interests of its people, otherwise it would be working against itself and thus defeating its own purpose. While contemplating about the motives behind the every important decision a simple question must be asked:"Cui bono?".
Two basic principles of controlling the people are fear and greed. A fear from losing the job, the house, a fear from the common enemy which results in being even more controlled and restrained - "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety", etc.
A greed based on egos. They make you believe that you can be that rich person one day, that you can join them hence submitting you to their agendas as instruments of their own desires. They won't tell you that you will probably be replaced by a better model once you reach 45-50, that you won't be thinking as quickly as you once did and that the future is not at all bright, especially considering the neo-liberal doctrine of an "open market" which destroyed cities such as Detroit and soon will collapse the USA in favour of China. Ditching Marx by connoting him to totalitarian regimes while promoting Smith, etc. Ultimately, they will refrain from notifying you of the numerus clausus of the rich club. Ladies and gentlemen, they are not accepting any new members..
Basically, you are a tax payer and an organ donor (accidents happen if tissues match) for the rich oligarchy. The system is pretty good actually, they're relying both on your ego and subconscious herd mentality. Take for an example a term "conspiracy theory". What does the term itself imply? It implies something not proven, on the borderline of sanity, schizophrenic tendencies, paranoia etc. And why is that? So that you can laugh it off hence preventing any serious discussion that could jeopardize the people behind the scene. It is a self-controllable system where you don't need a RFID chip or CCTV cams. You just need common people following the pattern of mocking everything that does not abide to strict rules set by the elite few.
Same goes for the term "euro-sceptics". Euroscepticism indicates lack of belief, paranoia, etc. No one ever uses the term europhilia because that would immediately remind us of pedophilia, so the term is naturally avoided by the mass media.
Violence is bad? How do you believe that the repressive system continues to survive? Very simple, by the ad baculum arguments. However, if it is sponsored by the state, surely it must be something good, right? So in an essence you are thinking and behaving the way you were conditioned to in the fear of consequences for expressing ideas that would collide with the mainstream set of rules.
Before they used electric shocks to control the herd of cows, now they use tasers to control the people.
Transformation to Eloi does not require hundreds of thousands of years, just a regular tv set and the lack of intellect.
Allow me to finish by quoting Thomas Jefferson:"When government fears the people there is liberty. When people fear the government, there is tyranny."
