With everyone dependent on a recurring income for food and shelter, you'll always see conflicts of interest develop between the public good, the employee, and t

With everyone dependent on a recurring income for food and shelter, you'll always see conflicts of interest develop between the public good, the employee, and the employer. The only way for this to change is to level the playing field between the employee and the employer. Basic income is one way to do this as the employee could walk if the employer becomes ethically challenged and decides to implement something which breaks the law. Not everyone has kilobucks of "F.U." money in the bank, in fact, most Americans have no savings at all which is part of the thing driving this. The whole economy in America has no margin of safety. The employee lives paycheck-to-paycheck, the small business owner is constantly worrying about making payroll, the large corporations are draining away the opportunities by offshoring, and the banks and Private Equity are conjuring up ways to rip the small business owner and common folk off. This will continue to happen, just at other companies. All things I discussed above need to be fixed before this type of problem goes away.