That answers the question of why management operates the way it does. It doesn't answer the question for developers. I actually can't fathom it at all, I find

That answers the question of why management operates the way it does. It doesn't answer the question for developers. I actually can't fathom it at all, I find it completely impossible to sustainably perform tasks that I think are socially negative, pretty much regardless of the reward, I'd just shut down and get sacked if they pushed it. The general response I get to this sort of thing is some variant on "you are privileged", which completely misses the point, it assumes that I have a choice in the matter of whether I do bad stuff. Maybe I just have too much free time to think about this stuff in and that could be the 'privilege'?