That outlook has a name: "learned helplessness". It's the belief of lacking power that is the problem. There is plenty of power that can be had when workers organize. Don't cross taxi unions in France or they'll burn shit down. Cross French farmers and they will clog the highways and streets of Paris.

As a global perspective: American employees tend to lack testicular fortitude because they lack hope, knowledge, and self-worth.

yeah you can't compare france and the entirety of the us. france is the size of one state in america. the power to change things en masse in america lies in the congress which is outsized controlled by smaller states that want the country to go back to the 1600s. you simply can't understand the power of corporations, common law, and the incredibly conservative supreme court the last 40 years. you know nothing of the scale of america.