Lots of people here are ok with being abused by rich and powerful aasholes if it gives them the opportunity to become rich and powerful aasholes themselves.
It's the whole "I want corporations to do literally whatever they like with no oversight, because when I run a corporation one day I want to be able to do whatever I want with no oversight".
HN commenters see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed CEOs.
Good one. I see what you did there!
I wouldn't describe people working at Big Tech making $12,500 per month gross as "exploited proletariat"
The corporate bootlickers posting certainly see themselves as temporarily embarrassed CEOs
I'm writing this out of pure curiosity - if you were to discover that the vast majority (more than 90%, say) of human beings that have ever lived in Human history are quite well described by what you just wrote, would you reconsider your worldview?
What world view is there to reconsider? They are pretty much stating the fact, unless we're revising facts now.