I mean half of it is just human nature, and the other half is a workplace that has no protections for employees.

It's a giant industry farm, just like china. Yet somehow most people are content to work within it. I can't say I really understand the mentality. Everyone is a "temporarily embarrassed millionaire" as Steinbeck put it, just waiting for their chance to make it rich.

It's really the same everywhere in the world to varying degrees, but in the US they've perfected it to a science and made it the cultural norm.