Thats a little hyperbolic. These aren't rust belt coal miners. With a name brand like Uber on your resume you could quickly get plenty of competitive job offers in SF/SV without even trying. Its hard for me to see an excuse for this, other than widespread cultural acceptance/willful ignorance of these practices.

The bar for "good" is lowered when there is money on the line?

Well it's great for them to have those, but they gotta do more for me to consider them as good. In my eyes, they're just looking out for themselves and their family.