[alphonsegaston]

No, I meant expressly what I said.

A democracy cannot function when it harbors inside itself a system in which the survival of most people is determined by something organized like a dictatorship. The poor conditions in the modern labor market have been engineered by these authoritarian systems in collusion with the governments they corrupt with their outsized wealth and power. It's intended to disenfranchise people politically and economically to ensure a small class of oligarchs maintains control of both systems.

[dredmorbius]

At-will employment, tight labour markets, etc., are a significant part of that engineering.

I suspect you and HarryHirsch are in violent agreement.