Unfortunately few young people actually learn and know this, and many workers are selected to exploit these type of blindspots many young people have for exploi

Unfortunately few young people actually learn and know this, and many workers are selected to exploit these type of blindspots many young people have for exploitation. This is true in tech especially. Management often would choose the candidates who were young because they didn't ask questions, they followed directions, they didn't know their rights, and they were desperate for experience to kickstart their careers. They also would require legalese that would steal any potential competing ideas they ended up making outside of work through inventions agreements, and this trend still occurs today. I've walked away from several MSP jobs in the past because they took approaches like this and was grateful for my past experience and sticking to my principles. The hard sell pressure, requirements to agree before they'll send you the paperwork (which require conditional agreement pending review), and unwillingness to be reasonable (i.e. your given it on a saturday and it must be agreed to by Monday (few lawyers can review things over the weekend in that timeframe), followed by a withdrawal of any prospective offer for simply asking if parts of the employment contract were negotiable given valid concerns are just a few major red flags I regularly look for in employers today. If the employer is going to rescind an offer because you ask questions, for me its not just them doing that. Its them triggering a revocation of my conditional acceptance and its mutually rescinded, and I make that clear in my final communication and never apply for those companies again. Eventually the lack of talent available at these places, through their own actions, will have an impact and drive them towards insolvency.