If a Koch brothers company offered you a job for 50% more in salary, would you take it?

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46. I can't say just based on getting more money

There would be many factors (location, what I'd be doing, commute, work-life balance, people I'd be working with, etc.)

I did work once for a company whose founder and CEO was in cahoots with the right wingers trying to destroy Clinton. That was distasteful for me, but my wife was pregnant with twins when I got the job and we needed the healthcare, income, and stability the job would bring us.

Fortunately, the company for which I worked wasn't involved in the CEO's politics (although it was rumored that in order to advance you needed to join his PAC). I wasn't thrilled with the company's very corporate culture (their casual Friday was what I considered to be regular workweek attire before I joined), but I liked what I was doing, honestly, and I liked quite a few of the people who worked there (some of them even shared my politics).

While my supervisor and I were on opposite ends of the political spectrum (he was ex-military and conservative, but not rabidly ideological), we actually shared a lot of values in common; we just put them into action differently. I liked him and still think of him as one of the best supervisors I've ever had and one of the few I genuinely respected.

So I could work there and hold my nose when it came to the stench of the owner's political views and activities.

I don't know what it would be like at a Koch-owned company, but more money alone wouldn't be enough to tempt me to join one.