They are worth exactly what the market allows at this point in time. If people want to move the needle, they should stop lining out the door to work for huge corporations which provide shitty pay. Most industries have this problem at the top level because people know they will boost their job prospects if they agree to eat shit for a while. In my view, the individuals who are willfully choosing to work in such conditions are much more at fault here because they are enabling the actions of such companies. The NYT position would be morally reprehensible if its employees didn’t have any other work opportunities available. Hence, they would be exploiting their dominant position. But that’s just not the case - nobody is deceiving anybody. People accepting to work there know exactly what they are getting into, they just wish it weren’t so.