That's the failing of the 'free market'. There is no alternative. And you fix that by making an alternative. As Beveridge put it (in 1944): "The labour market

That's the failing of the 'free market'. There is no alternative. And you fix that by making an alternative. As Beveridge put it (in 1944): "The labour market should always be a seller's market rather than a buyer's market. For this, on the view of society underlying this Report - that society exists for the individual - there is a decisive reason of principle. The reason is that difficulty in selling labour has consequences of a different order of harmfulness from those associated with the difficulty in buying labour. A person who has difficulty in buying labour suffers inconvenience or reduction in profits. A person who cannot sell his labour is in effect told that he is of no use. The first difficulty causes annoyance or loss. The other is a personal catastrophe."