How about the employer stops pocketing the profits and just gives everybody a little bit more? Perhaps you have never had to choose between medicine and a roof over your head, or never known what it is like to go hungry, but it is an experience that no one should have to endure. Your idealistic vision that if an employer pays too little then a worker can simply leave displays your utter lack of reality. Most poor workers have nowhere else to work, as their previous jobs were destroyed when bigger corporations squashed the competition. They lack education because they cannot afford to go to school (either pay for dues or simply take time out to go to classes) and, as a result, are stuck in a never-ending cycle of poverty. If you don't want a minimum wage, open a sweatshop in Guatemala, I hear you can get a 2-for-1 deal on retired death squads.
