Without labor laws to back something like this up, all it does is get engineers fired. Non-software engineering fields do have such laws, I believe. An MBA cannot make a civil engineer build a bridge that is unsafe because they want to save money. After all, it's the project engineer's signature on the final work. (Please correct me if I'm wrong.) On the other hand, a large proportion of startups are doing something illegal or unethical and the only recourse for the engineer there is to quit or be fired. In some egregious cases, that may be worth it. Mostly, it's not. That's how our labor system is set up. I've always said, if you want to kill someone, start a corporation. It's the easiest way to get have someone else do it for you and get away with it. Anything less than murder in business is not even a consideration (unless the business gets punished which it most likely won't be).