Every single person I talk to says that they find more security in being exploited by somebody else - even when they have no trust for them. It galls me because that’s like saying that one’s own work has no value! So why should you then expect businesses to treat you fairly if all you bring is a warm replaceable body? The middle classes get conned the worst. On the streets where people don’t expect to get those jobs, some hope for them but many are less gullible.
So much of this. If someone who doesn’t know what you know, who doesn’t have your experience, who can’t generate your ideas, if that person can still claim exclusive ownership of what’s in your head, you are valued on the dumbest corporate criteria and end up having no value at all.