I see it as a broken social contract, and this behavior has kept me out of white hat too. While selling to the highest bidder isn't what we collectively want to

I see it as a broken social contract, and this behavior has kept me out of white hat too. While selling to the highest bidder isn't what we collectively want to happen, neither should we want large companies to fail rewarding individuals for improving their systems, particularly security. I don't want a landscape of pirated software, but I can't apply moral judgement to someone who chooses to sell the information elsewhere because the owner won't offer in-kind value. It seems to me the first immoral action is actually being made by the company. I wonder if a proper way of addressing this is for individuals to negotiate higher awards through a non-profit specializing in legal and monetary law. But what hasn't worked and will continue to not work is using social moral condemnation. I think we all find "you wouldn't download a car" funny, right? Worse for this situation is the context of the growing economic divide worldwide in 2022. Under that lens I wouldn't be surprised to see this happening more. The more oligarchies show individuals that they don't care, why should individuals show they care about the oligarchies?