I went to reply to Jexel but I couldn't really find any bit with a basis in reality, the idea someone should throw away their source of food & shelter because they view some of their employers operations as problematic is obviously ludicrous, as is the idea that working class revolts don't occur in feudal/capitalist societies (In fact pretty much all of them were in these societies and the very concept of working class was born out of capitalism). The modern concepts of working class, communism, socialism ect were all theorised in Manchester in response to the working conditions during the first industrial revolution, in many ways this was the birth of modern capitalism as well as the birth of modern socialism (As of course thesse terms relating to class conflict were first coined by Karl Marx while working in the factories here in Manchester). The idea that there isn't still clear signs of class conflict here in Manchester or in any other working class city in Britain is crazy, the last violent clash's we had were in 2011, the last clearly politically motivated clashes in which the government initiated direct organised violence against working class people for their political views was 1985 (Battle of Orgreave, an event that even our current government has gone to extreme lengths to continue to try to cover up the devastating reality). In the part of Greater Manchester I'm from, the life expectancy is lower than that of the Gaza strip, and there's certainly no shortage of unrest, political or otherwise, as there has been for the last 150 years. To claim that people being lifted out of poverty is as a result of anything but the continuation of human progress is a real stretch, pretty much all aspects of modern science and technology that changed our lives were invented under governments that could not operate a free market (IE wartime nations), many of them claimed to be socialist, many of them were fascist dictatorships, even the UK during its time of major innovation and success during WWII up until the 1970's was essentially a socialist nation in much of its operation, it's only really since globalism & Thatcher in the 70's/1980's the UK has shifted to hard free market capitalism, which is not coincidentally when serious & violent political schisms between the ruling & working classes began to re-occur.
The rise of boardroom parasites went mostly unchallenged during the 70s/80s/90s as they were deemed a fundamental part of modern capitalism, but their pay has never stopped skyrocketing while workers pay has been stagnant for decades in the face of ever rising living costs, now we're at the point where valuable skilled jobs are being cut while these salaries continue to grow shows us these salaries are a consequence of human greed and little more.
If you think the rise of things Donald Trump & Brexit hasn't been from a certain portion of the elite capitalising on working class discontent then I don't know what world you've been living in.
