You believe exploiting laborers is a thing Americans invented:

The whole "if you have time to lean you have time to clean/ I'm not paying you to stand around" exploitative nonsense. [...] It comes from an old school "Protestant work ethic" which has been a pervasive sickness in American culture since its foundations.

It is some of the most obvious American exceptionalism I've seen lately. Read the definition, hot shot. You naively believe that this "work culture" of pushing workers is something American or something new.