Within the last year, I took a 20% pay cut to move to a company I felt more ethically comfortable with, and I still feel good about the decision. It's not abou

Within the last year, I took a 20% pay cut to move to a company I felt more ethically comfortable with, and I still feel good about the decision. It's not about one's dream role/job/company. It's about whether one is willing to tolerate something that makes one ethically uncomfortable for a number on a check... or not. And although everyone's circumstances are different, I know far more people who work for shady companies and live in McMansions than ones who do it to support their family. Judgy? Absolutely. But there are a lot of jobs out there: if you work at Comcast / US NSA / Chinese Bureau of Public Information and Network Security Supervision then it's because you don't have a problem with how they conduct business.