Well, to draw examples from the US, Curt Flood tossed his baseball career to break the reserve clause. Cassius Clay/Muhammad Ali lost years of work due to Vietnam. Colin Kaepernick tossed his football career to showcase racism. I'm sure there's non-US examples but those are what came to mind. I don't mind people "going along to get along", but I respect those who put themselves at risk if they're talking RL issues.
But as I wrote previously, if you profit from the action your criticism is less valuable. Perhaps better to not make yourself look bad?
EDIT: I'm sure there's some in the HN community that have given up (big) bucks to work on things they find ethical and appropriate rather than taking the cash to sell ads and monitor people. Perhaps they can enlighten this discussion if they wish?
Muhammed Ali is perhaps a good example, because he really did have something to lose.
I think Colin Kapernick is not as good, he wasn't a good player, and in the current environment what he did was guaranteed to be embraced by the cultural leadership of the english speaking world, he was basically held up as a hero, and got his own TV show.
If a premier league player refused to kneel for BLM, he would be banished from football and public life forever, for being an evil racist. And would probably have a hard time finding any work for a long time.
Imagine the kerfluffle if a national team passed on Qatar or if a Messi or similar just said no. It's being applied to Russia for international aggression, so maybe ethics-and-fairness might happen someday?
But as I wrote previously, if you profit from the action your criticism is less valuable. Perhaps better to not make yourself look bad?
EDIT: I'm sure there's some in the HN community that have given up (big) bucks to work on things they find ethical and appropriate rather than taking the cash to sell ads and monitor people. Perhaps they can enlighten this discussion if they wish?