It's called noblesse oblige. People with means in their daily lives constantly make financially unsound decisions out of a sense of duty and responsibility.

That microsoft is cutthroat here, sure, it is the nature of transactional corporate relations, but it would be a sad, ugly world if individuals internalized this same dehumanizing ethos in their personal dealings.

I paid our cleaners during the first months of covid despite them not coming over... we've been using the same few people for almost a decade now. All the restrictions our governments created really fucked over people like them.