Conversely, I feel like I keep seeing "woe is me" whining from corporations when there are calls for them to maintain even the barest pretense of responsibility

Conversely, I feel like I keep seeing "woe is me" whining from corporations when there are calls for them to maintain even the barest pretense of responsibility to their employees. I've lived in both CA and MA and both states have rolled out gradual increases in minimum wage, with employers gnashing their teeth all the way and claiming they'll be ruined and need to start huge rounds of layoffs. There has been a growing gap for decades now between productivity and real wages https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/ https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/ It is only rational for the people being left behind - often the ones doing the labor that generates all this value - to demand their fair share