False binary choice in one sense, but also living America invariably becomes a Hobson's choice or a Catch-22 between survival and morality. Where I grew up in the SF Bay Area, the income required is $390k/yr to afford a home mortgage.. and there are very few ethical and legal / productive ways to make that much money working as an employee. It's basically not possible without starting a business, becoming a criminal, and/or serving immoral businesses in war, financial trickery, or megacorps.

I'm not American but... That's why I explicitly stated if I were to work for one of them.

As in a hypothetical scenario where someone pointed a gun at me and told me to pick one of them to work for.

Otherwise there many better and worse options.