Because a lot of people are happy to have any job. You need some level of understanding of the market and qualifications to be able to pick better jobs. And if

Because a lot of people are happy to have any job. You need some level of understanding of the market and qualifications to be able to pick better jobs. And if you have worked in bad jobs for a while you probably don’t even know that things are better somewhere else. The same happens in higher qualified jobs too. Why do so many programmers work in abusive companies while there are better companies out there? Maybe they lack the initiative, qualifications or just understanding to apply at better companies. Whatever it is, the fact that people go for those jobs shouldn’t be an excuse for abuse by employers. Otherwise we could tell abused spouses the abuse is ok because they should have left if they don’t like it.