"Work for us and sometimes we will pay you!"

I think the point is more that it's something people paid real money for just to have them rip it away with basically no notice and no replacement.

You need a car to get to work. How are you supposed to not buy oil? The point is the fossil fuel industry gave us no real alternative, you don't have to eat at a restaurant to survive but you need a job to.

What country? "Many countries" have little to no workers' (or human) rights, that doesnt make them a good metric for deciding what's ok.

But in which direction?! 😬

I'm willing to bet even if that were true a good portion of those are fake or a person with multiple accounts.

So it's basically a job that instead of getting paid YOU have to pay the employer to work each month but they may pay you instead some months?

I think (most) millenials and gen z are in pretty good agreement with what policies we want for the future, though. So I'm not that worried.