Technology

I don't know the job market where these people are at, or whether the "lot of tech companies" were in their general vicinity (and with the "Return To Office" craze, fully remote work is no longer a certain possibility). I also don't know whether they applied elsewhere and were rejected. Maybe the "lot of tech companies" includes a lot of the type of "high demands for little pay" environments we occasionally see memes about. And particularly right now with companies working to cull their workforce out of misplaced faith in AI, the prospects for finding a new job become shaky.

Yeah, sure, many might be there because the money is good or whatever. They might stay, even if there are alternatives, even if they paid comparably, because change is scary and they worry that whatever company they jump ship for might sink and leave them desperate for a job again. Possibly out of healthcare too.

In any case, I'm fairly certain that the motivations for working there aren't all as simple as "I think what they're doing is good". When the system is rigged to fuck over workers, I'm inclined to think that many, indeed, have little other tenable choice. Find a way to help the people that want to leave do so safely, then go ahead and condemn the rest.

(I'm not working there myself, just not quite as trigger happy with blanket insults.)