I hope you've never argued for a raise when you could have asked your boss to give someone else a raise instead. It's like, yeah, we should think about others,

I hope you've never argued for a raise when you could have asked your boss to give someone else a raise instead. It's like, yeah, we should think about others, that's great. But not every and all attempts at raising one's own status completely bad and evil. When I was young and starting my career, there were plenty of fields I could have picked that were almost all unionized (in my home country, unions are the norm almost everywhere). I specifically didn't go those ways because I felt I could do better without. Didn't stop the others to go that route. Now that I'm there, on purpose, if people tried to build a union, I'd probably push back. And if the majority still wanted it (that's their right!), then they can get it, and I'll move somewhere else.