Victor,
Either the employer or government provides a living wage- because whole communities of underutilized people are not going to starve.
Even those who are only interested in themselves must realize that hundreds of thousands of people will not meekly starve or seek out nonexistent jobs because of somebody else's ideology. Of course they'll create their own social compact that will reward their own attributes such as physical strength rather than entrenched privilege.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
