Requiring people to adhere to a negotiation strategy that essentially means begging for goodwill doesn't sound reasonable to me. The power disparity between an

Requiring people to adhere to a negotiation strategy that essentially means begging for goodwill doesn't sound reasonable to me. The power disparity between an individual and a large company is huge; so if you really want to effect change, you're going to need to address that - for example by banding together. I don't think it's healthy for any social group (not just companies) to be as inflexible as today's companies have grown. A bit of friction and disagreement is a low price to pay for adaptability. And of course, this kind of inflexibility is symptomatic of entrenched power imbalance which leads to wealth inequality which causes its own host of societal problems. To be clear, I don't think correlation is causation here: the company isn't at fault for creating wealth inequality, but I do worry that we're busy ignoring warning signals that might bite us all in the a if we're not careful.