> They set the rules of the game, you just play the game.
Obviously the only winning move here is not to play. Things like stack ranking are a perversion and no amount of compensation would be worth working for a company like that. If you choose to play, you're complicit in the moral abomination.
It's not always a choice when the system increases costs of living to a point where you need to enter a toxic company in order to literally exist, and interview acceptance rates are abysmally low.
If I had enough money that employment is optional, then yeah, I can make that choice, but until then, I'm not complicit.