Nobody implemented DRM with a gun pointed at their heads, and anyone capable of implementing harmful technology has the skills to work on something else for lots of money implementing other things. It was always a choice.

That you could work someplace else doesn't mean someplace else is hiring someone with your skills, or that you could afford a pay cut if necessary.

This is true for fruit pickers or uber drivers or whatever but it is ridiculously out of place statement for software engineers.

I know a guy who's been looking for work for like a year, and he's got a math degree.