Your sarcasm betrays an ignorance of the history of the relationship between Capitalists and labor, especially during the Industrial Revolution (European and American) and the several decades thereafter.
They literally did not care if their workers died. So workers were employed in deplorable conditions for less-than-livable wages, in order to maintain high profits, simply because the Capitalists could get away with it. I don't know what makes you think the Capitalists of today are significantly different from those of yesterday in this regard. The key difference that separates them, as I see it, is that today Capitalists may (notice the "may"--it isn't guaranteed) be prosecuted or, worse (to them) fined, if they violate labor laws.
And do you have actual evidence to support your second assertion? Especially in the case of the Bay Area in general, or San Francisco in specific?
They literally did not care if their workers died. So workers were employed in deplorable conditions for less-than-livable wages, in order to maintain high profits, simply because the Capitalists could get away with it. I don't know what makes you think the Capitalists of today are significantly different from those of yesterday in this regard. The key difference that separates them, as I see it, is that today Capitalists may (notice the "may"--it isn't guaranteed) be prosecuted or, worse (to them) fined, if they violate labor laws.
And do you have actual evidence to support your second assertion? Especially in the case of the Bay Area in general, or San Francisco in specific?