Sometimes removing yourself from the pipeline is all a person can do. It need not even be framed as a “protest.” That’s just weird projection by someone who’s never been in those situations (or someone who’s interested in continuing to collect a paycheck while cope telling themselves they’re doing “good” by staying because the replacement would be even worse or any other eyeroll ego attempt at rationalization).
Your choice of conjectures, quasi-rhetorical questions, say a lot about what you’re after, which is not simply understanding but some kind of vindication.
Anyways, it is somewhat naive to believe in the myth of the incorruptible person AND that they can change broken shit fuck organizations by being in the right place. Modern systems and structures are way better at neutralizing potential rogue agents like that. One example: Shareholder desires of “value” trump other corporate considerations. It’S tHe LaW.
For your questions or pursuit of understanding, prima facie, in my opinion what can be called a proper answer are empirical, anthropological, or cultural facts, not so much a reasoning or philosophical matter. Maybe it’s different now but back in my day (which was as early as 11 years ago), this information was realistically only available in colleges. Due to its highly political (or anti-political) nature, it is difficult to find in public-facing or mainstream infotainment outlets, ie anything “pop.”
Having read Signs of Danger by Wyck and come across the “use religion as a tool” method, my conclusion was and still is, that it’s not worth the cost. You don’t need to use fairy tales or tales of the boogeymen because the target audience aren’t fucking children.
Authoritative religiosity has killed, kills, and will continue to kill far more than a future unlucky tribe, scientist, or archaeologist digging up some nuclear waste because present society couldn’t bury it deep enough or give a bigger fk to fund a generationally self-perpetuating warning system (because that’d actually give independent power to science and rationality instead of politicians).