Neither.
I would favor more economic literacy among all workers, so that they understand the fundamentals of where “jobs” and “wages” come from in the first place. Especially I would like to see this taught at a very young age. Not that “people should learn how to be a cog in a wheel” or “how to conform and fit in and sit down and shut up”, though some will read this and attribute that meaning to it. I can’t help those folks.
If I had a dollar for every time in my career I’ve heard “This is a rich company, surely they can afford… {whatever; fill in the blank with anything you like}.” then I could have retired to a private island ten years ago.
People need to understand that their wages and benefits – their jobs, in every sense – depend upon their “economic value” to an employer. It’s not magic to receive higher wages – to be “worth it” as the Clairol commercials proclaim – and it’s not exploitation to be paid low wages because the value to the employer just isn’t there. No employer has a purpose to “create jobs”; that’s totally meaningless political drivel. Beyond that “hours” and “wages” are costs to employers that they understandably want to limit as inputs to their productivity as much as any sane person would.
So few understand this most fundamental concept that it’s personally sickening. People could and can make themselves more economically valuable to their current and any future employer – if all they want is “a job”.
So beyond that, the second thing I would favor is to instill in people a desire for independence from “an employer” and to create their own job, their own company. I wish that I had learned that lesson myself ‘back in the day’. I’m far too lazy to raise that ambition now. That way they could eventually cut their own work hours and increase their economic benefit at the same time. How sad that this is so seldom grasped.