[Brown Rat]

You definitely have a point about improving the technology. But even with improved tech, there can still be class systems and oppression and people locked into the jobs that their parents did. Unions can address those problems.

And you are right in saying that this episode gives a clear pro-union answer to the question. Giving an answer breaks with the show's tendency to ask difficult questions without taking a definitive stand on an answer. But I'm massively in sympathy with the answer.