The solution is an extremely difficult question. I don’t think any lasting or significant solution is possible without organization and better education. I think the best way to get the message across would be some kind of organization targeting families, both the adult children who are fed up with the crappy jobs and low pay they have to work at and the parents who are fed up with having to give them money so they can survive. If parents were able to understand the situation for what it is, maybe they would stop encouraging their children to work in jobs with no future and support them without that condition, or get those who are working at these jobs, rather than buying technological toys with their earnings, not that that’s such a bad thing, within reason, to save up, organize, run in local elections, start their own businesses along with their families and other members of their communities, and just impose, on a local level with some kind of national or international organization backing them, a local standard for living wage jobs (or even living wage laws).

Obviously I don’t have a very clear idea here, but I think the final solution to this problem would be for the U.S. and other consumer nations, like much of the EU, to institute living wage legislation (rather than a poverty-level minimum wage) and to ban imports of products and services which don’t pay a living wage for the areas where their employees live. Obviously, that’s a tough sell, but I think the benefits are clear.