a deepening aversion to change at the very moment it is becoming impossible to resist
This is the article's keystone. Pull it out and the rest crumbles.
When will we see some substantiation for this claim?
"a deepening aversion to being stiffed at a time when companies are increasingly successful at convincing politicians and pundits that it's a good thing to stiff workers" In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
How realistic is the threat, I don't know.