It ain't just the software industry. Industries across the board seem to be running into the same self-inflicted pain: "Woe is us, we can't find anyone who wan

It ain't just the software industry. Industries across the board seem to be running into the same self-inflicted pain: "Woe is us, we can't find anyone who wants to work for us... What's that, pay better and not rely on Kafkaesque recruitment pipelines? lol nah, clearly the workers are lazy and entitled." Employers won't change their behavior unless they're actually pressured via the ostensibly-free market to do so. In the short term, UBI would give workers vastly more ability to negotiate for better terms on an individual level; this extends to longer term proliferations of both labor unions (which can sustain longer strikes when UBI at least prevents strikers from going hungry or homeless) and ideally-cooperatively-owned startups (wherein the founders have a safety net in the highly-likely event that the startup doesn't make it past the front of its bathtub curve, and wherein the company is less reliant on outside investment just to keep the lights on). But whenever such solutions get suggested, they of course get shot down as "eww socialism" and the problems persist.