The feudal regime, which dpended on a land and semi-free slavory system, collapsed and changed into another regime: Capitalism. Capital was more based on capital and mobile human resources. In feudalism land belongs to the Church or the King, whereas in capitalism it belongs to an individual owner. Nothing is static, everything is mobile and in progress; workers, machines, tools and knowledge. Industrialization, first modern cities and importance of time appear in that period. They, who have a capital, which was brought from oversees through colonization and exploitaton, are going to build industries. Imagine thousands of manufacturing plants with giant pips through which continuously comes a mass of black smoke. Inside of this plants thousands of people are working days and nights including children and the elderly. in addition, more people are waiting outside for work. If one of workers dies inside, someone from the outside has the right to work. Perhaps those outside are praying for the death of those inside. Most of those workers don't have any accomodations and their health conditions aren't good enough to work. As soon as they get their farthing from the "new owner" they go to market, where prices rise everyday, to buy a piece of bread to be able to work tomorrow. All of these happened near half a century ago.
21st century. Thousands of Giant Mergers and Monopolies are rising from the horizone with ......... speed. They don't have anymore huge plants with big pipes and thousands of struggling employees. They are more intelligent and powerful. In fact they don't have to be busy with unemployment outside because Government is going to deal with it. Mr. Monster-Capitalist has a clean, modern, and vary comfortable office where he can count his money, that smells of the blood of victim-employees, who lost their jobs, accidentally died or quit their jobs for any circumstances. Moreover, they hire people with high quality. And there are some "standards" they require: flexibility, teamwork and speed. You have to be like them, you have to breath like them, eat, sleep and of course think like them. What happened to people who stayed outside and asked for work 400 years ago? Unfortunately they are still outside, but now they are their graet-grand children. Before they were unemployed because of overpopulation, but now they don't have an appropriate skills. How can they have "the appropriate skill" when there is no equal opportunity in education, medication and nutrition.
