One thing I've realized as I've got older is that basically nothing changes from when you're a kid to when you're an adult. Literally the same inhumane treatment of employees I see in this sub are the same ways I see children treated in school too.
Back in elementary school we literally had “Full Attendance Awards”, awards you'd get from never missing a day of school You'd be encouraged to go even if you were sick, it's really no wonder why things like lice or flus would spread around the student body like wildfire.
Teachers will even suppress individuality and prevent kids from speaking up- just like how employers treat workers. As a kid I once got punished for speaking up about how the game we were playing in gym class was unfair, and I was forced to sit in a room by myself writing over and over again how I wouldn't disobey teachers. (The game was girls vs boys, there were only about 5 girls in the class compared to 15 boys).
Children are conditioned to accept mistreatment by authority at an early age in this type of economy…It's sick.