Your solution to a dumpster fire is to play a very risky game of hero, navigating an environment where at any point you could step on someone's toes, in hopes of salvaging a project for which there is absolutely no guarantee you'll get credit, let alone a sizeable reward, while the market is rife with opportunities. For a bunch of capitalists, not some noble goal.
Forgive me, but playing hero (really just martyr) sounds like the absolute least logical thing to do.
Not necessarily — the person you’re responding to said you can always ride it out if you don’t want to take on more responsibilities. That’s fair to me: look for solutions if it suits you, but otherwise stay silent and don’t introduce negativity (which is bad for you politically in addition to being bad for the project).
I have to agree. When the risk is greater than the reward, you have to ask if the project is worth sacrificing for. I find the answer is generally no. Even noble projects are set into situations where it isn't worth the sacrifice. From a purely pragmatic view, you can do better for the world by skipping the sacrifice and finding a similar noble project to keep working at.
It is a sort of prisoner's dilemma. Society is worse off because people tend to operate this way, not just in IT but all over. But we aren't going to fix society, so build a small kingdom in your life you can control and try to make things nice within it.
Forgive me, but playing hero (really just martyr) sounds like the absolute least logical thing to do.