With the industrial revolution, we saw the whole world covered in manufacturing plants and factories. The economic revolution of the services industry is the result of overproductive powers on part of the workers. It no longer requires so many people to produce the same amount of food and luxury. Or, at least, the ability of laborers to produce is outgrowing the ability of possessors to consume. With such productive capabilities, the only new industrial interest that a Capitalist could have would be a personal services business. Who else would have money to spend on extravagant tastes than other Capitalists?

     With the new economy, we find people living a new type of life. In past eras, generations spent their time creating things, making life useful and improved. But now, we make a living by being sorry and bending our emotions to the will of our employer. We aren't paid to be workers, as though we were human beings -- we're paid to be puppets and jesters, as though we were possessions.

     We are paid to socialize and interact, to pretend to be concerned when someone's sad, or to pretend to be happy when helping a customer. It is not enough to submit your time and your energy, but you must submit your independence -- you are no longer happy or sad about how you're living your life, because you have to bounce between one or the other just to feed yourself.

     For the customer service employees, almost every act on the job is about providing the human face to any otherwise less-than-desirable company. Everything we do could be very easily automated, even going back a century. Waiters and chefs, salesmen and greeters, service "representatives" and customer "technicians." These people, while they may perform only a small amount of work, are doing it out of the sympathy you can develop for such acts.

     If all the chefs and waiters were productively working together, they'd be able to feed the entire world. But it would require that we, the workers, are organized in a more efficient manner. It would require us to actually pull wealth out of the ground, and to have our own right to it. But no, we apologize to people when they spill their drinks or their food, and then we clean it up for them. It is the most pathetic form of waste. The workers themselves have enough power and strength to feed the world over several times, with a workday that's twice a week and only two hours long. Instead, we're listening to peoples' meaningless concerns, interacting with them as though we were friends, and providing all acts of socializing that our employer requests.

     This economy did not rise up out of anything except over-efficiency. Yes, we certainly could feed the world a thousand times over and cure all diseases known to man. But our factories produce too much and our farms offer too much food. The market is flooded with these commodities, but there is no use for them. The majority of people, struggling for one of the last few jobs, have very little money left over. This is the effect of competition. With fewer jobs, that produce just as much, there is a lesser need for laborers and productive workers. In that case, the market drops our wages to miserable levels, and we possibly cannot consume all that we're capable of making.

     The owners of business, seeing an abundance of workers asking for labor, produce new industries -- businesses that cater to the needs of those with more money. Capitalism, essentially, is an economy where those on top possess everything, and those on the bottom possess nothing. There is no point in trying to sell things to masses of people without money; but there is every logical argument in trying to make a product or business that pitches itself to those with real wealth.

     One might suspect that we'd be approaching a barrier where those on top could not possibly want anything more; and, the increasing productivity of workers will ultimately lead to such catastrophic levels of unemployment and poverty.