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It's called the sunk cost fallacy. "I can't possibly quit because I've put so much time/money/effort into this."
But... they are literally the mods of r/antiwork, a community based around calling out unfair treatment by bosses and gathering strength to quit and find better employment.
You can't make this shit up, it's so stupid - it'd be unbelievably dumb if it weren't for the fact that it actually happened.
It's super ironic, I completely agree.
In their mind their worried about the stakes of losing complete control of their haven on reddit and watching a community they built in their free time, start blindly following some puppets appointed by reddit. Reddit will always have that power but so long as the mod sees a possibility of maintaining control Reddit can cowtow them under the guise of "You're the best mod we have, we want you in control, we just need you to accept this is the reality."
True, but there is a real danger of changing the tone and direction of a sub with a mod swap. That sub has gone through it.
Yes that's the risk of a strike, and reddit knows that. When asked if they'd stick to their principals they gave up. Easy as that.