If you want to understand why the US workforce gets such a bum deal, imagine a school classroom where the students have convinced themselves that the class bully will be nice and buy them all snacks with the lunch money he stole if only they give it to him nicely instead of making him take it, except that the bully never made any such promise and instead says that those who can't hold onto their lunch money don't deserve it. The bully is the one percent.