To me it seems like these people are more interested in power, and the prestige of being an "insider" than anything else. The moral dilemmas are secondary, like

To me it seems like these people are more interested in power, and the prestige of being an "insider" than anything else. The moral dilemmas are secondary, like fun anecdotes and conversation topics they can interrupt with "well, actually..." It's a culture of complacency and pretentious bragging that allows evil companies to keep going. This is the case for every bad company from Google, to Blizzard, to FTX. Back when Blizzard was making great games, did they have a culture of "I work for Blizzard therefore I am a true insider"? No. That's their current culture though. I've seen plenty of people saying they got hired by their "dream company" and now they're in "silicon valley" and all that, and invariably they're joining some predatory company that rides on a legacy from pre-2015, or some hype train like most crypto projects. You want to work for a non-evil company? Just don't work primarily for bragging rights, it's not that hard. Of course, some companies are not necessarily evil but have the prestige. I think what differentiates those from others is that people want to join those companies to be part of a mission rather than simply make money and gain bragging rights.