This isn't about small companies with a handful of people, it's about the ones with thousands of employees. And being a freelancer basically means not having anyone beneath you.

The whole point is about the massive amount of surplus value the employer takes off the employee. In small companies, due to a lack of machines, experience, connections in the industry and other things, there needs to be more work done for the same profit. So the employers will have to work themselves to rival other major corporations.

You shouldn't see these type of things as a critique on the person, but on the system. You have to exploit your workers, otherwise you won't be able to compete with the ones that do.

If you are a fair boss, and you give your employees the actual value of their work, you don't have any to invest, and will eventually fall behind on technology. So the more someone exploits others, the more they're able to invest in tech, therefore increasing their workers productivity, and the amount of money they can extract.

The owner of a major company has to be a major exploiter, otherwise they wouldn't be where they are.

That's why the problem is the system, not the person