Baseball Free Agency and Gen X

Has the creation of free agency in baseball affected the employment patterns of Gen X?

If you're a doctoral student or simply a thinker, feel free to steal this idea, research it enough to respond, or lambaste me as I've been lambasted by prior posters ("You suck" comes to mind).

The definition of the supposed Generation X is still highly debated, but Wikipedia notes that the book Generations by Strauss and Howe says this generation was born between 1961 and 1981, while others define sub-genres with a prevailing set of years between 1965 and 1975. This would make the generation anywhere between 24 to 44.

Baseball free agency began with the case of Curt Flood, a St. Louis Cardinal outfielder who after being traded from St. Louis to Philadelphia after the 1969 season, pleaded his case to then-commissioner Bowie Kuhn, to become a free agent. The battle was against the Reserve Clause, which bound the player to the team he played for and gave owners tremendous power to control their employee. He lost. Then, in 1974, Catfish Hunter of the Oakland A's claimed breach of contract against owner Charles O. Finley. An arbitrator agreed with Hunter. The Reserve Clause crumbed December 23, 1975 when Andy Messersmith of the Dodgers and Dave McNally of the Expos played the 1975 season without contracts and declared themselves free agents. An independent arbitrator sided with the players, was fired, the ruling taken to a federal court, and eventually upheld. This summary was taken from a fine article by Bruce Lowitt from the St. Petersburg Tribune from 1999 titled, "Free-agency era opens in baseball".

This got me thinking about my generation.

Did baseball's free agency begin at a time when my generation was coming into its own?
Have personal salaries increased at a similar rate or scale as have ball players since free agency began?
Are workers switching jobs at a similar pace as ball players looking for more money?
Are there correlations between workers' changing jobs more frequently and the reduction in employer benefits such as pensions?
Is a transitive property effecting not only job hopping, but employer benefits? So, if employees care less = increased job hopping, and employers care less = employees care less, then increased job hopping = employers care less?

There are, of course, a lot of other factors that affect this generation. But, in terms of dates, the growth of free agency in baseball certainly falls into the date definition of Gen X.

I ask you Gen Xers out there: Conscious or not, has the rise of free agency played any role in your efforts at work or to switch jobs? Do you see yourself as a free agent? Do you believe Gen Xers running organizations are reducing benefits because they assume we think this way?

Anybody want to run with this one?