I imagine that his point is that workers aren't trying to bring about change. They just want to be done.

I thought everyone understood the strategy is to use the excess supply of labor to push people to their limit and squeeze them as much as possible. And in commodity businesses with low profit margins, businesses that do not squeeze as much as possible get crushed by those that do.

Ah yes, you can fire the employee at any time without severance, but how dare we not give two weeks notice, or be more understanding about why the owners schedule late and pay next to nothing, and treat us like disposable trash (spoiler alert- its profit).

That's fine, you can sit high and mighty on your chair. I'm sure as in most things life, it will reward you with a fresh batch of what you call suckers (aka people who have no other choice) to exploit. Generally speaking though, I don't think over large swaths of time your point of view has proven to be sustainable. It did and will crumble eventually, being a sucker (see definition above) has an expiration on it.