Yes, you’re right, I’ve certainly been in situations when I just couldn’t afford to lose a job and so had to put up with a bad boss...

That’s why I say that it’s a boss’s moral obligation to give radically candid guidance to an employee, but an employee’s job to make sure it’s safe before offering the same.

But there’s plenty of “safe” ways to test the waters. I wonder why he gave such blanket advice to give up before getting a sense of whether giving feedback is safe? That seems to me like saying because there are a few shark attacks in the world nobody should ever go swimming in the ocean!