You just don't get it...
Labor has always been cheap. Yes sometimes it is cheaper than others, but labor is flat out cheap...
the difference between a well paid worker bee and a minimum wage worker bee really isn't that sigificant when you think about it.
Its ideas that are worth gold.
Most people have no ideas that are worth selling: they work for those who do have the ideas worth selling and as a result they barely scrap by.
Admittedly however, the system is inefficient: some people with bad ideas actually come by the capital through inheritance and other means and end up causing chaos.
But alas, one mans chaos, is another mans opportunity.
Find the chaos and capitalize.