Sure, maybe to other people in the world who are not as privileged, but help keep society tick anyway. We can be grateful to them that their toil is allowing us

Sure, maybe to other people in the world who are not as privileged, but help keep society tick anyway. We can be grateful to them that their toil is allowing us to spend our time doing this. But like the sibling comment said, employment is a business transaction, even if it’s usually heavily lopsided in favor of the employer. Typically it’s an organization owned and run by people who are even more privileged than us, and that don’t have any qualms about applying pressure in the other direction when they can (see the working conditions of most of the aforementioned ”other people in the world”). Of course we should be respectful and strive to do our best and provide value commensurate with our compensation. But if the market is such that people can take a pick and go to companies that let them have more fun while doing so, I think that’s great. It’s a pretty calvinistic mindset to see it otherwise.