This. I’m a computer programmer, never been in a union, but after twenty years of startups I cannot believe how good it is to be at a small, stable, employee owned company.
Only looking back do I realize that the people doing the actual work were never in control, and just how damaging that is.
To pour you life and soul into building something (time, and time again), and then have it taken away from you again, and again.
Never going back.
Indirect, but you could run a Storj node and donate the profits to a good cause of your choice.
Also, assuming you don’t buy more hardware, and you believe sustainability is a good cause, then running a node in itself is a good thing.