It does not pay well, but it pays enough to get the (exquisitively expensive CA) bills paid. I am going to pull the Cathedral meme into this. Companies like these are not a bunch of evil geniuses constructing the most evilest way of getting their ideology into as many cultural staples as possible. They are way too dumb for something like that and don't understand culture well (if they did, they would hold different political views) enough to pull off an intellectual point of view. They just realized that companies pay well for you to come in and do your magic around their character and world building, then bottom of the barrel "journalists" in the publications glorify them, because they all hail from the same starting point of being a midwit. Israel does not really play into it IMO, or if it does, it only raises/lowers the reward, but it doesn't break the collusion conditions.