Well as I stated in the same column where I provide the link, I've not read it, I doubt you have in this time either.

That said, the system creates these imbalances so I would not look to simply treat the symptom.

Progress depends on a deficit of cheap labour to encourage automation. Globalisation has seen companies move manual low-skill jobs to other countries. Meanwhile land prices are up and so are rents. People must take what they can get whilst the usurers run rampant.