  00-00-0000, 00:00 PM  They are not. The working people of the US form a Labor Aristocracy.  Still, because American companies outsource their labor for near-starving wages abroad, purchase huge swaths of land so local communities cannot farm them on their own, and stock our department stores with the products of this horrid labor that we buy for cheap, we should definitely be on that list.  And yet the VAST majority of those near-starvation wages are FAR more than they would make without those jobs.  