If you don't follow the incentives are you out of a career? And if so, what is the pragmatic thing to do to change things. Because getting a job in tech instea

If you don't follow the incentives are you out of a career? And if so, what is the pragmatic thing to do to change things. Because getting a job in tech instead just means you swap to another set of bad incentives. I wonder if unionizing would help? Otherwise how does the idealist eat?