> I hope we can agree that de facto serfdom is a bad thing.

There is actually some evidence that what we currently have is already worse than serfdom [0] in many ways. I don't think this is a crisis which is about to occur, but one which has already started, is currently ongoing, and will probably get much worse.

[0] http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/worktime/hours_w...