"Worker Solidarity"

One might encounter contemporary liberals, or certain liberals at a minimum, who believe that there is no such thing as a worker being justly penalized by an employer or a worker who is not a spectacular paragon of virtue by being part of a generally exploited group.  It is logically possible for all people from various groups can be oppressed even if one of them was hypothetically not being slandered or otherwise mistreated right now anywhere on Earth, so workers are not unique in this sense.  Workers, yes, often face many asinine forms of irrational expectations, crushing demands, unhealthy conditions, and low levels of reward across many industries and roles, but being a victim does not make one a good person.

No one could be rational or righteous based upon a factor like where they fall on a corporate ladder because there is nothing irrational or immoral about being either an employee or an employer.  Individuals from either category could be slaves to assumptions, greed, selfishness, hypocrisy, superficiality, and philosophical apathy, all of which are particular expressions of their erroneous irrationalism, and no one escapes this by being a worker, whether they are oppressed or not.  The only way to escape a life that is without value beyond whatever human rights are there--which a person could never know from conscience or assumptions and which many would rely on while actively disregarding the nature of reality--is to align with the intrinsic truths of reason.

Being an employer cannot exempt one from this.  Being an employee cannot exempt one from this.  If a worker gets mistreated, it does not matter what stupidity they are guilty of; if there is such a thing as mistreatment, no one could deserve it, rich or poor, employer or employee.  However, mistreated or not, a worker is not morally valuable and upright or metaphysically special because he or she is a worker.  Just as they do with gender, race, and age, it is clear that liberals and conservatives often make positive assumptions about people in one group and demonize or trivialize people in another group, all over irrelevant factors.  The truth of individualism renders this false, for it does not follow from these factors that one is rational or irrational, or morally good or evil.

Plenty of liberals will almost certainly not abandon these falsities, perhaps thinking that anyone who does not hate or oppose all employers and stand with all workers in all circumstances are not true egalitarians.  For the sake of "worker solidarity," they personally love and champion all employees no matter how philosophically irrational, self-sabotaging, incompetent, or shallow they are.  Solidarity with fools is never rational unless one only stands with them in their partial, selective rationality and righteousness or affirms their right to never be mistreated no matter their worldview or deeds.  Of course, they sometimes literally deny that employers would have human rights by virtue of being human as well.

There is very entrenched classism in many aspects of American society (and that of other countries), and there is no one direction that it goes in.  In a world full of irrationalists, many employers and employees will inevitably be the predominant members of their respective groups.  None of this means that all workplace exploitation should not end immediately, without any regard whatsoever for how it will hurt the profits or happiness or social advantages held by wealthy people who gained that wealth through oppression.  Workers just are not rational, morally good, incredible human individuals by being workers.