BI kills workplace domination, this gives low income workers bargaining powers so they can either request for better wages/conditions or they can leave said job with no risk of consequence.
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A UBI could turn this merely formal right to exit into a meaningful ability to exit, and various forms of UBI allow various forms of exit. Simon Birnbaum and Jurgen De Wispelaere (2016) distinguish between weak, strong, and radical forms. The weak form is the ability to drop one’s hours, creating a shorter working day or week, the money from the basic income picking up the slack. The level of the grant in this case would not need to be liveable, in the sense described in the last section. The second option, strong exit, gives workers the resources to sustain a longer search for a new job once they have left the old one, making their threat of exit more credible and thereby reducing power imbalances in the workplace. Alternatively, those workers could simply use this power of strong exit and find a different, less dominating job. Again, the level of the grant required to provide strong exit would not have to be liveable, since it does not rely upon enabling independence from all work, just independence from one’s particular job.