The countries I know of where employers have decent vacation etc and don’t hate the employers, all have strong unions.

If unions doesn’t work, then maybe you are doing it wrong.

To me, “free album” is like a person handing out free CD’s on a busy sidewalk.

This is more like my landlord going into my living room and putting a CD on my shelf.

(Now someone will tell me about how my analogy is flawed, I don’t care, that’s how analogies work. It’s not the same, it’s an analogy.)