" He also acknowledges that this is a job for people with no future prospects--life is as good as it is going to get for them. Unlike David who will one day own his fathers shop and will be toward the top of the capitalist system ( i.e. the owner of a business), his counterparts have nothing to look forward to but maybe the possibility of working behind the counter in some dinner of sorts. .
David and the other boys take home a mere ₤3 10s 0d a week, while on their best days of peddling papers and responding to the customers needs they bring in upwards of ₤18 each. When Mr. Hoskyns sees the increase in cash flow he demands that everyday bear such profit or, he suggest, there will be consequences. No where does Mr. Hoskyns mention that there will be a pay increase for all the boys' hard work that went into his newly found higher profit margin. There is a great discrepancy between how much work they are doing for the company and how much the company is doing for them in the form of payment. In the end, David realizes that his life will not be limited to the service of others but he also sees that those who are subjected to a life of servitude are simply used and discarded when they have no possible profit potential left in them. Mr. Hoskyns capitalist greed keeps his young workers trapped in a position with no hope and no chance of making something of themselves. There is, as Marx would say, class conflict here. Mr. Hoskyns is determined to keep his status as a somewhat successful businessman (high class) and therefore uses the labor of his workers (lower class) to elevate his status, while he steadily hampers that of his workers.
The next example is from "Women in the Banana Republics." Women workers in these so called "banana republics" are brought in as "cheaper" labor when the cost of men laborers gets too high, if their labor unions get too powerful and threatening to the corporation or even if the companies just want part-time workers so they do not have to pay the workers as much.