Are you deliberately ignoring the concept of power imbalance and wide spectrum on which it occurs?

All of those examples you cited are drastically different types of relationships, set in very different contexts, that absolutely deserve different terms of engagement.

>Do we now hate the rich so much that we want to impose that burden on them when they pay someone

I don't even know how to parse this. We're talking about companies of a certain size. I guess we have fully stopped pretending they are anything other than an appendage of the wealthy class, and have no other responsibilities to society.