I always find peculiar the people who from their rhetoric sound like borderline marxists, yet have had rather privileged lives and at the very worst they worked part time at walmart in the air conditioning so that they could extra spending money in the summer. The folks who rant about solidarity and the workers, form their macbook while sipping a frapachino at Starbucks.
(No snowstalker, I am not directing this at you, though to be honest you do kind of fit into this category. )
Translation: When you are comfortable you should pretend the working poor don't exist.
Personally when I have extra money to spare I buy American. I wish things were more clearly labeled as made or assembled in America and I would also like union labels on everything. What makes more sense to me than volunteering at a soup kitchen or paying higher taxes for welfare is paying Americans directly for their labor. If people were a little more conscious about this type of thing we the people could solve our own labor and wage problem. If it costs 10% more to buy American I do it.