As long as materialistic convenience is the standard, then the profits which reduce wages and the surrogates for labor will leave a pool of under-employed and unemployed who will be the resource for instruments of violence by non-state or state actors. The state sponsored actors are the more destructive tools since they are used to appropriate and secure greater realms of economic and political control around the globe. It is from the appropriating of wealth from other territories that make it necessary to have these armies of people who have no other stable economic recourse for themselves to be the manpower pool from which the controllers can expand their conquests for enhanced living standards.
The empires of antiquity and the 'empires' of the present are based on the privilege of luxury and extravagance by the few, and those seeking to attain that stage of privilege. As the few seek to opportunistically hoard the means of convenience to themselves, they will seek the consequential deprivation of others. The anticipated resistance to this encroachment upon other's resources and means of production are met with the fodder from the surplus pool of those who became redundant and fungible in the economies of efficiency for greater profits.
There will always be under-employment along with unemployment because the race-to-the-bottom for cheap labor will move jobs and dislocate workers from sustainable income. From within this pool will be those who would be willing to provide the coercive persuasion for the political policies that enable the economic opportunism for material aggrandizement.
A nation-state will either be a colony-pawn for these imperial manifestations, if not one of the imperial perpetrators. The loss of civil freedoms and economic security will be a direct correlation to the growth of imperial expansion by the nation-state to control resources for the privilege of the fews' convenience at the necessary expense of the many. The need to control will trump any past ethics of restraint and virtue as the bottom-line to provide goods on demand in the competition to get and keep patrons will dispense with any restraining notions as quaint and obstructionists to the desired ends of satiating demand.
The profiteers of this aggrandizing will be the money-bags for the political operatives who make the laws and regulations. This latter group's political position and personal state of privilege will be based on patronizing the wishes of these aggrandizers. To maintain this status, they will sacrifice the well-being of the many to enable the former's activities.
