Yet in a global labour-market that will be 3.5 billion strong in 2030, competition is bound to be intense and often uncomfortable, for workers and governments alike.
He argues that would should ideally happen is reform first - adapting to changing technology and the global environment with things like reforming the labourmarket.
But there is also a longer-term explanation, based on the weakened power of labour after the entry of countries like China into the global employment market.
Whereas workers' pay depends on the labourmarket (and has been kept down by the huge numbers of people joining the global economy), managers' bonuses are chiefly tied to returns on capital.