It'll get worse, Mr. Burns. Who would have thought Marx's crystal ball was so accurate? With globalization, Marx's "proletariat" doing most of the world's work now is China as the manufacturing centre of the world.
Apple's last quarter was the most profitable of any company in history, its best-selling products made by China's Foxconn which makes close to every electronic device in the world with starting pay of $2 a day.
Foxconn's factory in Chengdu where the iPad is made employs 120,000; another in Shenzhen employs 230,000 who work 12 hours a day six days a week. On the evidence, their workers aren't turning out crap.
That's the hell of it: the millions of jobs shipped overseas aren't likely to come back, placing democratic states at risk of collapse.
