This is just silly. There are many many people who work in exploitive jobs, most don't have reasonable alternatives. In silicon valley, there are likely many

This is just silly. There are many many people who work in exploitive jobs, most don't have reasonable alternatives. In silicon valley, there are likely many engineers who work at exploitive jobs. They likely have reasonable alternatives, but don't take them because they have hopes of a big payout. Then you have Apple employees. They likely have reasonable alternatives to working at Apple, but they aren't their expecting a big jackpot, because Apple is an established public company. So why are they there? Most likely it's because the message of that card does speak to them. If they figure out later that it is BS, they are free to go. For all the secondhand stories I hear of how bad it is to work at Apple, I'm surprised by how few first hand stories I hear.