And also, read your article -- at a minimum, this idea of losing your survival while negotiating the terms of your employment ( or trying to ) pretty much turns capitalism into a form of slavery... Because the majority of people work for 1-percent of people on their specification with few other options. I am in complete agreement; though I say why not go all the way and have unions manage the entire thing? But maybe I am a little radical .. I would be happy with a SocDem/DemSoc push either way, it's obvious this isn't working well for the majority and we should certainly do something. UBI could certainly mitigate such things, especially if the UBI was survivable income -- you shouldn't have to work hard to barely survive, you should have to work hard to thrive.