Across 32 countries, nearly one in five workers have encountered discrimination on the job — yet that burden falls unevenly, shaped less by identity alone than by the quiet power of having somewhere else to go. Economist André van Hoorn has found that workers who can credibly leave an employer are treated better by that employer, because the market punishes those who make their best people miserable. This is not a story of discrimination solved, but of discrimination constrained — a reminder that freedom of exit, long understood as an economic concept, is also a form of human dignity.