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This is a terrible way to look at it. If the labor pool is fractured into hundreds of millions of pieces, each acting in their own self-interest, how can you keep big businesses from exploiting them?

We'd just be back to the wild west of employment law pre-1880s, except without even the meager fallback of employment contracts, everyone would be at the mercy of the owners.

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There is a very real scenario for many workers that comes down to this:

a) continue working this horrible job and survive

b) quit working this horrible job and (lose healthcare/don't pay bill xyz/starve/insert outcome here)

My argument is that if survival isn't tied to gainful employment, the nature of work and the market will shift.

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