The smart people do one of 3 things:

* Start their own company

* Go work for a startup where they actually get paid options, and have a say in what the company does.

* Go chill at one of the big companies getting paid good salary while coasting because the work is so easy.

What they certainly don't do is go work at a company for less pay and harder work hours, all so that they can make a literal Nazi richer.