> There is another way, which is negotiating and clearly stating one's goals.

There is also the collective variant of this, which is _unionization_. It's hard to do, but still much easier than every one person in a workplace "uplifting" themselves, and possibly facing retribution or termination. The overall outcomes are more promising - again, on the whole.

Indeed, we aren't taught these self-administration and collective-self-administration (autogestion) skills. Paradoxically, we mostly have to teach ourselves that - at least collectively if not personally. When this happens, from my own personal experience, the rewards are quite significant - emotional and material :-)