> Abuse is OK because some people eventually figure out how to get away from it?

I take issue with calling it abuse, but yes -- it's a learning experience and a life lesson. I did it, I was disillusioned with school, quit and worked in manual labor, delivery, and restaurant jobs when I was young. Decided I didn't want to do that for life, so I went back to school and learned to program computers. Then I worked as a consultant, decided that was too many hours and too much time away from home, so I found another job that was better on those metrics. Decided I didn't like living in a huge metro area, so found another job in a small town.

Life isn't handed to you, and if it is, you don't appreciate what you have.

We do it in the medical and legal field under the guise of “experience” and “career development”. Is it different because it’s blue collar hourly work and not used as a foundation for a lucrative career.

I think it should stop in all places but we seem to disregard shitty work arrangements for the few prestigious and financially lucrative careers and cry wolf for those hourly souls.

Why is that?

Abuse is OK because it's universal? Come on.

> I think it should stop in all places

This is the only appropriate answer across the board.

...this seems to ignore the huge amount of scrutiny these kinds of practices are getting in the medical field.

Don’t see it in legal field or software engineering.

Are you saying it's not fair that people who get paid less get more sympathy?

I’m saying we focus on populations because of a common theme but some problems transcend those categorical boundaries.

Should delegate the same hours of jail time to those managers.