Even within countries, measures of wellbeing are strongly related to the proportion of the labor force employed in capitalist production. In Mexico’s state of Nuevo León, two-thirds of workers are employed by private incorporated businesses, while in Chiapas only one in seven is.
即使在国家内部，福利政策也与有多少比例的劳动力被资本主义生产雇用强烈相关。在墨西哥新莱昂州，三分之二的工人受雇于私人企业，而恰帕斯的这一比例只有七分之一。因此，毫不奇怪，人均收入在新莱昂州要比恰帕斯州高九倍多。在哥伦比亚，波哥大人均收入比麦考（Maicao）高四倍。毫不奇怪，波哥大的资本主义就业率要高出六倍。