<i>You</i> don&#x27;t appreciate office cultures involving alcohol or dog-friendliness, and <i>you</i> roll your eyes and put up with them.  Some people <i>do</i> value those things, and they also value having coworkers who value those things, which isn&#x27;t a surprise because most humans value community (though of course different humans have different ideas about what constitutes community).  So when you flat-out lie to your coworkers about your feelings, you&#x27;re undermining the social fabric, for your pecuniary gain (e.g. because you don&#x27;t want to be correctly labelled a &quot;bad culture fit&quot;, because you like the salary).  That deceit is straight-up unethical.<p>It&#x27;s also disrespectful to assume that your coworkers don&#x27;t know what&#x27;s actually valuable to them.  Some people prefer an extra $5k in salary, some people prefer $4k of free meals.  Or $6k of free meals that costs the company $3k because of scale.  Or whatever.  Some people are investing in their long-term growth by deeply immersing themselves in their careers (and perhaps working non-long-term-sustainable hours), and if the company provide some cheap bennies that make that easier to do, so much the better.  Yes, the company profits, and no the employee isn&#x27;t maximizing short-term earnings, but maybe it&#x27;s still win-win.<p>If employees <i>really</i> can&#x27;t afford recreating or adequate living space, then of course that&#x27;s a problem.  I&#x27;m skeptical that&#x27;s a real problem in software, though.  And if that problem does exist, btw, then I think the best solution is those employees going and finding careers&#x2F;lifestyles that fit better.<p>I want to add that I found this comment particularly startling because most of the comments I most agreed with on this page were also by you, p4wnc6.