[subsubzero]

The problem is a few companies pay very well, at senior+ levels, Google, FB, NFLX, AMZN, etc, If you work there for a few years and want to leave comp will be an extreme drop which given the cost of the bay area is a hard pill to swallow, why not try to unionize and fix a broken company?

[afandian]

Surely at that point one is as much bought into the ethical compromise as the money, and the knowledge of where it comes from?

[esoterica]

You can leave for another FAANG or high paying company. There is a decent sized pool of competitive paying companies out there, it's not just Google and Facebook.