We are complicit in our employer’s deeds

I think there is one morally solid reason to stay at bad acting employer: if you are actively driving change of the behavior you consider bad. I pick this quote from Brays post:

> I escalated through the proper channels and by the book.

He only left after he felt he had exhausted his options of influence (This being my interpretation).

Leaving just as a knee jerk reaction without making effort to change would be bad, to me personally almost worse than remaining. Of course quitting can be in many cases feel easier/more attractive than trying to navigate through the office politics. But if you manage to flip even small corner of Google or whatever to not do evil (as they used to say) that probably has more influence to the wider society than you quitting.

Counterpoint being that you need to recognize if you are making that change or not, and if you are not able to do so then quitting might be the right choice

Counterpoint is that if your boss is for example narcissist, you cant change the course from down. You can only more or less implicate yourself. The toxic and manipulative technique will rub on you too and will normalize what is going on.

The culture and actions are set from top. If it is possible to change things, then great go for it. But make sure you are not staying for illusion of "navigating office politics" that amounts to being naive enabler moving himself more and more in the direction of the employer, convincing himself that more and more is actually fine.

> But if you manage to flip even small corner of Google or whatever to not do evil (as they used to say) that probably has more influence to the wider society than you quitting.

That is unlikely. For the record, I do not think that being employed in Google is inherently wrong. But you are not doing the world some kind service for working there. Just like working in startup does not mean you are changing the world.