There are definitely Meta employees who are not making especially high salaries like SWEs. Think about departments like support, graphic design, marketing, etc.

Most white collar workers do not have any luxury to stop working even if they are well-compensated.

Also, it’s not like you have a wildly great choice of ethical companies to work for as an employee. What percentage of corporations are truly ethical? What companies that compete with Meta are highly ethical? If I quit Meta who am I working for that has no ethical issues?

> There are definitely Meta employees who are not making especially high salaries like SWEs

With very few exceptions, Meta employees are generally making more money within their domain as compared to what they would make working at other companies, which is always an option.

> Most white collar workers do not have any luxury to stop working even if they are well-compensated

It’s a false dichotomy: work for meta or be unemployed. Millions of white collar workers are doing fine not working for Meta.

And questioning if any corporation is free from ethical problems does not absolve you from the responsibility of the outcomes of what you build. Some corporations are objectively worse than others. A corporation building systems to pay gig workers less than the minimum wage is going to be probably worse than a corporation that builds a design collaboration tool when it comes to ethics. You can choose to work for either and be well compensated for your work, but let’s not pretend you’re some poor soul trapped in a job that you can’t escape.