50 years ago, hell, even 30 years ago, I would have agreed with you 100%.
Times have changed, and you seem oblivious to that change. Our markets are regulated, causing entry barriers to would be start ups, reducing competition for the established. Since creating ones own business is more and more a risky bet with increasingly bad returns, this creates more surpluses in labor, which decreases the bargaining power, no matter HOW good of an employee one might be. And then, of course, there are the robots, ever more ready and willing to take those jobs and do them for free.
We are slowly, and soon to be PAINFULLY, transitioning into a dramatically reduced labor society. We either accept that certain things will need to be done in order to preserve our way of life, or we change our way of life...namely, no more consumer culture, but a simpler, less materialistic existence. Or we accept that consumerism requires consumers, and acknowledge that robots and poor people don't consume. Not as much as is needed to afford me my corvette, anyway, at least.