In first world countries corporations have been moderately regulated and their workers were able to get a small piece of the pie. But their power and influence are gradually eroding the protections and benefits of those workers still employed. And so the corporations are off and running to new venues around the world searching for the lowest labor cost. To compound those abominations the natural resources of a country are bought and sold at bargain prices by the same elite parties. In this fashion the masters of the world can control both labor and resources.