The policy of using workers as grist for the mill, grinding them up until they have nothing left to give and then discarding them like trash on the slag heap, only to replace them with another worker has been taught as good business practice for a while now. It has lead to low productivity and poor returns, plus a lot of social ills, this is the mantra that Trump and his ilk like to spout, people who have never done any real work in their lifetimes.
If you work hard, take care of your people, treat them like family and share the wealth with them, you will go far.
It worked for me and I retired at the ripe old age of 48, my people did well for themselves and some carried on to open their own companies. It's not a secret formula, it's common decency.

Sad to say that this country only respects business owners and not the worker who is responsible for them being a success. In over 100 years, we are pretty much back treating the workers like crap, just as it was around the time of the New York Triangle factory fire incident.

"I ain't a communist necessarily, but I been in the red all my life." - Woody Guthrie

Yes, are you just figuring that out? Good. Many people never make that trip.

of course

Or what we can collectively force the bosses to give us.

You are 100% correct.

The event that changed everything was when the Berlin Wall fell in 1989.

Prior to 1989, 5/6 of the world's unskilled labor was in Socialist or Communist countries.

The 1/6 of the world's unskilled workers who lived in capitalist countries had it made because almost all the world's working capital went into employing them.

With the collapse of Socialist/Communist countries worldwide, the global supply of free-market labor increased by a factor of 6. That's why unskilled workers in the USA, Canada, and Western Europe have fared so poorly since 1989.