The article is targeted at a Canadian audience, and more specifically policy-makers. I presume that the Canadian government has more control over regulation of these matters than what has happened in SF.<p>On your hypothesis of a general trend not specific to the present situation, outside of the US, your assumption (4) does not hold, and you&#x27;ve missed out on a reasonable assumption that a country with a majority or significant minority of unspecialized workers in a country with a democratic process can, by virtue of mass, encourage their government to regulate businesses that prey on them.<p>As such, I&#x27;d say that unspecialized workers are not, in general, necessarily doomed to exploitation.<p>edit: While I&#x27;d say that this alternative conclusion is pretty flimsy as well, I&#x27;d like to point out that while the parent poster&#x27;s conclusions follow from their premises, the premises themselves warrant further investigation. In addition, an investigation needs to be made to better understand what is feasible, especially wrt the political dimension (which I found the parent poster&#x27;s argument to be lacking in), before we can come to a better understanding of whether unspecialized workers are doomed to exploitation.