Anyone here read the novel The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell and fancy discussing it and its relation to the state we're in today?
If you haven't read it, it's about the development of capitalist exploitation, just before the labour movement and trade unions really took off.
The “philanthropists” are the workers who live in poverty with precarious employment, giving their health, time, energy and lives to support their corrupt bosses while arguing against their own interests.