[AndrewKemendo]

Well the whole idea of trade associations and unions has it's roots in anarchic-socialism. The idea being that collective bargaining lifts the floor for the worker.

The idea here is that the person at the top with outsized bargaining power is voluntarily relinquishing it to the person at the bottom in order to increase general welfare.

If you don't believe in that, then that's great, but that's kind of the direction everyone seems to be headed.

[xapata]

Even that "top" person might gain bargaining power by being part of a collective.