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You may underestimate the ongoing desperation for paid full time work with benefits in the US.
A lot of folk are one paycheck, one tragedy, one road accident or severe sickness away from homelessness.
And homelessness is already criminalized in some counties.
These are not the type of job for someone struggling so much. This is tech work. Googlers are very privileged.
They are, which means they know how dear their position is.
The concern for survival goes right up the hierarchy. Someone who works at Google fears falling out of their career and ending up in a one-paycheck-from-homelessness job. We've seen the same despair among political staffers; getting dismissed by an elected official could end their career in politics, meaning they're one of the rest of us.
Truth be told, I couldn't hack it and serve a toxic boss, but plenty of people would rather work in a cushy job for an evil overlord than a toxic job that is morally clean. That is one of the costs of existing in a society that runs on late-stage capitalism.