I don't think the 'they' you refer to exist anymore. It isn't that tech workers got corrupted by power. There was a brief (20 year?) period where workers had more leverage than owners. Asset owners were forced to bend to workers, pay huge salaries and beg to invest in companies they didn't understand.

Now asset owners have the whole thing comfortably under their thumb, every large tech co has MBAs throughout and schools have been pumping out engineers for 20 years so workers have no leverage. It has become the same as every other large industry.