Worked-owned co-ops (combined with workers banding together with courage, solidarity and decency) who treat their HR and all of their employees decently and with fair compensation are the way out. Jobs and employment shouldn't become so commodified because then ownership becomes rent-seeking, management goes the route of Boeing/Enron, work becomes pointless and workers become extremely disposable. The net effect is producing crap, no employees caring and treating customers like crap too. It's only learned helplessness that convinces people they must be exploited, underpaid and treated like cattle. And there's no universal binary utopia/slavery formula, each culture can evolve to suit its industry, style and members.
Herman Miller, WinCo, Publix, Mushkin, Graybar are just a few employee-owned no one thinks about.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_employee-owned_compani...
If anyone wants to learn more, check out videos and writings by Dr. Wolff and Democracy@Work.