Grinding the worker into a fine paste for profit has been the American way since at least the 60s. FDR made a few steps towards a sustainable life as a worker and business interests WENT TO WAR.

Eventually we got a president who fired every air traffic controller in the country instead of trying to make a literal safety critical job reasonable and well compensated, and a huge amount of people lauded him for his anti-worker action.

Meanwhile "liberal" groups basically did coke and nothing else for several decades, losing any support they ever had with a lot of working class people.

So yeah. We have an entire generation of management that knows nothing more than quarterly profits, stock buy backs, and executive bonuses to the point that the rewards from a doubling in American productivity all went to about 100 people at the top of the food chain, and they bought all the newspapers and convinced half the nation that thinking this is wrong is treason and socialism.

This was their actions after they failed to overthrow FDR in the business plot. They wanted fascism in the 30s.