You say that like it's a unique thing to software engineers.
In the cases you're probably thinking that should include, the marketers, sales people, operations staff, recruiters, and basically anyone else who keeps the business running.
You either think software engineers are so powerful as to effect the direction of these large businesses, in which case, you're wrong.
Or that somehow people earning a better living for themselves given the current climate which is almost uniformly stacked against the standard worker is wrong.
I think you should step back and look at the actual causes like their boards, investors and senior management as well as the government.
To note I say this with a clear conscience since I've never worked at any of the Big Co's at this point in time by choice.
That's nonsense. A bad plumber can make people's lives hell in a way a software engineer probably can't. Some software engineers may have more leverage than plumbers but in the end most of us just try to survive in a world that's shaped by a few powerful people.
