That's part of the problem. There's no way to survive in the 21st century without giving up much of your freedoms and privacy to a company entity. There are too many people I know that are wage slaves and have very little hope of pursuing anything else.

I recently got pushed back a month from being transferred full-time because they didn't want to spend the extra $1,000 dollars for a transferall fee (that's what they told me) while an acquisition is happening. Meanwhile, the CEO just got his multi-million dollar bonus and I just bought the office a new set of monitors and stands, a half-employee (friend of the CEO) a brand-new macbook pro, and serviced the CEO's daughter's laptops during work hours. You can't speak out on the bullshit or you're gone. You smile and nod.

The worst part is that this isn't a bad job at all: probably the best I've ever had. The unbalance of power is very real. These are not healthy organizations and entities: They're just money-making machines that have no desires to make the world a better place.