Just my opinion, but it seems to me that more bosses are running scared than, say, 30 years ago.
Back then, if a boss did an OK job, then his job was pretty safe. Not so now.
Today there is much more pressure on a boss to produce, or else. So the boss begins to fear for his own job, and starts making wildly unrealistic demands on the people he supervises.
This is what I’m seeing in my field anyway.
“So the boss begins to fear for his own job, and starts making wildly unrealistic demands on the people he supervises.”
My boss has “Patty Hearst” syndrome. He sympathizes with his own tyrants and has become one of them.