Someone on the management team is accountable to the board for disaster recovery and other functions including data backup. How is not safeguarding corporate assets and intellectual property not a management level responsibility?

It was astounding that people paid hourly fees for text muds in the mid 90s, to the tune of hundreds of dollars per month. There is subset of the gaming population who will seek out exclusive experiences, even if they cost several thousand dollars.

Or less offensively, there is opportunity all around you. If you decide to make 50k in Silicon Valley, that is your choice.

You can live modestly and not settle, too. Why not make 100k in the valley?

Is your point that the wrong people are getting into STEM programs at Stanford, where google hires a number of candidates? Is your point that some people cant move to the Bay area and climb the job ladder? More coherent detail, please.

And some of these interns have masters degrees or better.

The employer doesnt have to prove anything in an at-will employment state. The manager just has to be irked enough to insist on your departure, and then shut his/her/its mouth on why.

Or, white men are conditioned to an environment of abrasive competition, and not to complain about such behavior.

This would open the door to ticket scalping. How much would a Christmas flight on Stubhub go for?

"Business wants the most qualified and best product" - This is patently untrue. Businesses are as moral as their performance against last quarters goals allows them to be. All decisions flow downhill from there.

...who believes that all people work the same.

Because we Americans have no shared social contract anymore.

Are the people likely to have heart problems report high levels of perceived stress?

I wouldnt expect many people with choices to become a trucker these days. Automated vehicles, and all that. IT is arguably in disrepute after so much outsourcing. Why would anyone want to join a shrinking job field to compete with entrenched veterans for less pay?

Which was precisely my point. The original discussion was pinned on only two options.