[rkangel]

The big advantage that tech workers have is that the supply/demand relationship is more in favour of the workers than the company. In most cases if you end up not having a job for some reason, you would expect to be able to find an at least passable one fairly quickly. This means that we always have the fallback option of quitting if we're not happy. yThat then limits (to some extent) how shitty our employers can be to us and expect to continue to function.

The other side of the coin is the much larger group of people who struggle to find any job that will pay the bills. If they can get one it's a dice roll whether their boss treats them with some decency or not. They can't "quit if it's shit" because they might not be able to find another job and they risk starving or getting evicted.