There’s academic research that shows a pattern like you describe taking off during the Reagan era of union busting. Since then, filling important roles (at the

There’s academic research that shows a pattern like you describe taking off during the Reagan era of union busting. Since then, filling important roles (at the grunt level) has taken longer, wages aren’t keeping up. It’s almost as if it’s stupidly inefficient to have millions of workers negotiating all this on their own. Open standards in employment make the whole process smoother. Waste less human hours. But also increase worker security, which our system has been trying to undermine to the benefit of corporate masters for decades (Seriously; Alan Greenspan reported to Congress that growing worker insecurity was good for business during the Clinton admin)