Unionize or professionalize with a guild structure. There is a slight economic cost to your doing so, in terms of both rent to the organizational structure and the opportunity cost of unethical choices foregone, but organizing the only practical response to organizational pressure upon the individual.

Have you ever considered that the ideological opposition to collective action and glorification of individual liberty that obtains in hacker culture is in fact a form of social engineering expressly designed to disempower you and prevent you from threatening the social structures that rule your life? While public companies are nominally semi-democratic and allow open access to participate in their commercial rewards, in practice almost all large firms are dictatorships and operate on the same pragmatic principles as dictatorships.

It's baffling to me that so many people who conceive of themselves as free individualists are in such a rush to put themselves as the disposal of autocratic rules. Meanwhile the open-source movement systematically cuts itself off at the knees by displaying an irrational antipathy to any sort of private profit, thus ensuring a steady supply of free voluntary labor which is economically unsustainable for anyone who isn't willing to live as an ascetic.