[crdoconnor]

>One cannot publicly criticize a company while enjoying cushy paychecks

Why is it that you think that the people who see the sausage being made are exactly the ones most unqualified to criticize it?

[paxys]

These people aren't seeing the sausage being made — they are the ones making the sausage

[notJim]

Okay, so we're all at the sausage factory one day making sausage. We notice that we're shoving an awful lot of rat shit into the sausages, but the boss says it's more profitable this way. We get together and tell the boss, look we're not gonna keep shoving rat shit into the sausage. To you, this is illegitimate, because we're paying our rent out of profits from the rat shit, after all. So fine, we decide to leave. Now the boss hires new employees, and the process continues.

Ultimately, I think hypocrisy is the wrong lens to look at this through. Activists are not seeking purity or moral perfection, we're seeking change. Change requires organizing, which has to start within the company. An individual employee does fuck-all if they leave by themselves.