I don’t disagree, but I think that’s a poor analogy. I don’t think devs take into account the business value their future job will bring their employer when negotiating salary. And if they do, they only do so when the balance is in their favor and they definitely wouldn’t lower their salary if they think the job has less impact than another job.

They do when they decide to interview for large orgs. They do it because they get better pay. It's the same service. Why not work for a small org that pays less?

As a human, I do not want a level playing field when it comes to humans exploiting corporations vs corporations exploiting humans.

You have long since missed the boat on changing that. This is how business is done: "well we can charge you 5x the market price for the RAM/SSD upgrade, so we will!"

In some cases, yes. But not entirely. Open source exists to give people a way to opt out of would-be exploitation of a related kind.

Things can still get a lot worse: The fight isn't over until all roads are toll roads and you have to pay for the oxygen you consume.

That's because developers are people and corporations aren't.