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There's just so many other options for making (plenty of) money, that doesn't involve actively participating in making the world worse.
They pay like $700k/year. At that rate I could probably retire in 5-10 years and spend the rest of my life working on open source projects that actually improve the world full time!
Ended up declining the interview, but I considered it very seriously. So I can understand why other people might accept.
Exactly. Helping organise a genocide in Myanmar, sure, that's bad, but on the other hand, money!