Exploited workers think that the owners of the company are the ones making fat money off their backs and that's just not the case.

The owners are also exploited. Anyone with even a few hundred $ can go to the stock market and buy some stock in any company. You'll quickly find out that being an owner is not really that big of a win either.

Then maybe you imagine that the CEO is the exploiter, but the CEO is nominated by the board, who are elected by the stockholders. The stockholders don't want to pay the CEO or board any more than they need to - because they want to pay themselves dividends instead.

The problem is that CEOs who are GOOD at what they do are in short supply and they happen to demand a lot of money. Of course the stockholders don't have to hire them, but they do - because paying an exorbitant amount of money to a CEO is better than losing everything on a company that goes bankrupt.

You wanna know who the real exploiter is? It's politicians. They take money from EVERYONE, workers, owners, CEOs, etc. And they give it to their friends.