I think you're overstating the case a little here. Instead of seeing everyone as a victim its fair to place blame somewhere and to discuss real solutions. Its obvious to me that if we had mandatory overtime pay for tech workers a lot of this toxic culture would dry up. Managers would push back onto senior leadership the real costs of working undermanned teams this hard. There would suddenly be a financial incentive to do things right and/or hire more people. Right now, there isn't. So of course, the organization just pushes people around. Why wouldn't it? There's really nothing stopping it.

Why aren't tech workers talking about overtime pay? That's the elephant in the room here. Everything about this situation screams 'underegulated industry.' Shame that techies themselves, let alone management, are usually far-right leaning. I think their political views are paying them a huge disservice right now.