> The only way to counter that push is by giving more power to the worker, and in low-skilled fields with lots of available workers, you need to do that through

> The only way to counter that push is by giving more power to the worker, and in low-skilled fields with lots of available workers, you need to do that through regulations and subsidies. Even assuming everything else you've said is true, that's quite the leap to make. And also quite the oversimplification. There are lots of regulations and subsidies that have been tried where the unintended consequences end up negating most of the benefits, and just turn out to make the entrenched powers even more entrenched and wealthy. Plus there are ideas like UBI that don't fit neatly into the traditional buckets of "regulations and subsidies" and could be another (better?) way to give workers more leverage.