There's a great piece in The Guardian today entitled Cleaners Are Human Too, about London's nearly invisible (yet massive) night time workforce, whose jobs consist of cleaning offices. Most of the people who perform these tasks working full time (or more) are barely able to make ends meet.

Some of the more general points brought up in this article agree with trends I have witnessed first hand in the service industry. Over the years, I find myself gradually leaning away from my traditionally libertarian thinking, toward a more liberal stance.

From the article:

Market capitalism fragments responsibility into such tiny quantities that each individual - the banker, the contractor, the government minister - can plausibly explain away the impossibility of their taking action. (That's precisely the beauty of contracting out.) The net result of all those reasonable explanations is shocking: half the children you see on the streets of London are living in poverty.