Interesting points and questions. In a world that has been selfish from (almost) day one, I don't think corporations have ever been particularly benevolent (with some exceptions) except when it is in their best interest to be so. I believe some companies are truly visionary and realize sustainability is achieved by edifying one's stakeholders including one's employees rather than consuming them. However, for organizations focused simply on tomorrow's share price, employees are objects for consumption for the sake of "shareholder value." So what do we do in the face of such subtle or overt greed? The same as Christians always do; we love.
If I ever get around to writing the Guideposts Along the Christian Journey book, I'll discuss the concept of the "Flow of Expectations." Most of us have expectations and for most of us they flow from other toward ourselves. We have expectations of our employers, our neighbors and our spouses toward ourselves. The problem is the flow is in the wrong direction (and also outside of our control). As Christians, we need to reverse the flow of expectations, i.e., forget what we expect from others toward ourselves and focus on what we expect from ourselves toward others.
In this discussion, it is another way of saying our employer's behavior has minimized effect on how we work. Our expectation of ourselves is that we will give as much as we can to our employer no matter what comes back. That does not mean we do not seek a change of employment if we are in a bad environment. It just means we love in the moment no matter where we find ourselves.
I would wholeheartedly agree that prosperity is not the sole measure of success. It is also not to be completely disregarded. Is it worth having less in exchange for enjoying what we do, to have more time for our families, our God and for serving others, to be happier people? I personally believe the answer is yes as long as we do not become burdensome to others because of our choices. I greatly admire those willing to work for so little in social services in order to improve the lives of others. I tip my hat to those willing to have less but love what they do.
While it is good that we love our work and do what we love, we ultimately need to reach deeper. The most fundamental question is how do we love God whom we love. The next level is how we love His creation including our fellow human beings. So it is not how much we make or how much we love our job but how much we love which is important.
The answer to that question can take endless forms. If we are blessed so that the way we are called to love is to do what we love - wonderful. On the other hand, if the way we are called to love is to do what we loathe to do - be it make a lot of money so we can support those in need, be it work an ill paying job so we can help those in need, or be it hang on a cross for the redemption of mankind, so be it: Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it done unto me according to your will.
If the love comes more easily, is it less? Only God knows and we will only have the ability to truly love doing what we love if God grants us the grace to love selflessly. Otherwise, it is just more selfish love.
That's the beauty of God's love through His grace. If we do what we love because we love it, it is shallow. If we do sacrificial love because we are being responsible or in order to obtain its reward, we are still being selfish. The one who truly loves while doing what they love is loving more than the sacrificer selfishly seeking their reward. The one advantage of sacrificial love is it is less likely to be masking selfishness but it is no guarantee.
Thus, I suppose the important thing is to love whether it is easy or hard - love trusting God to make us love rather than loving in our selfish, human way. This makes our lives and our jobs holy no matter what they are and no matter what they pay. At least, that's how I look at it.

As always, thanks for such thoughtful comments and thanks for clarifying the question. Of course, it was probably always clear and I just hijacked the subject for what was on my mind!

I agree entirely with your central paragraph. Our lives are holy and we are to make the world holy by bringing God's love into every single action, thought and word in our lives just as you describe (II Cor 10:5).

Thank you also for asking me to clarify my terms. I suppose I use "sacrificial love" to describe love which is not easy, which exacts some price from us be it financial, emotional, physical. Dietrich Bonhoeffer defined the inverse when he spoke of "cheap grace."

In some ways, it is a disservice to define sacrificial love separately from love. There really is no difference; love is love. When the switch is on, to use terminology from The Christian Journey, we have love - no adjectives attached.

Oops! I feel a long digression coming on - not originally intended :)

Fundamentally, sacrificial love is no better than any other kind of true, godly love (not that there is any "kind" of true, godly love). It can indeed be defiled by selfishness, vanity or spiritual gymnastics and inferior to a purer love expressed while doing something we also happen to enjoy. It is just less likely to be tainted. When God loves by receiving our praise with an elated heart, He is no less loving than when hanging on a cross. The love of the cross is just so isolated from self-reinforcement that it makes the love easier to see for our sake; it sets love in greater relief than when we see His love raising the dead, healing the sick or holding children.

On the other hand, in Catholic theology we believe suffering to be salvific, i.e., by embracing our sufferings in love we can bring about good be it conversions or accelerating the process of learning perfect love and atoning for the practical, temporal consequences of sin among the departed souls who are not yet perfected for life in Heaven (purgatory). Although God could do this Himself, He allows us to do it (again akin to a little child following their parent on a construction site with their little plastic hammer) so that, by embracing our suffering, we are allowed to imitate in the tiniest way the voluntary, embraced suffering of Jesus' passion and death ("Pour forth we beseech you, O Lord, your grace into our hearts that we to whom the incarnation of Christ was made known by the message of an angel may by His passion and cross be brought to the glory of His resurrection . . ." - concluding prayer of the Angelus).

To rephrase it, we can further the salvation of souls in a way similar to Jesus' sacrifice on the cross not apart from Jesus' sacrifice but by His invitation for us to willingly partake of it (Phili 3:10, Col 1:24, Rom 8:17). This gives rise to the practice of seeking mortifications - not for self-exaltation, to gain points, or our personal catharsis but as a very deep imitation of the love of Christ. It also underpins the concept of indulgences - not as a spiritual accounting system but as a God given way (an economy to use the technical term) for us to express love in imitation of the sacrificial love of the Cross. It doesn't have to be that way and we don't have to do it. God gives it as a gift to us to allow us to more fully imitate Him and thus learn His love by experience and in our bodies rather than just in our heads.

So, in that sense, because God has so ordained it, there is some special treatment for sacrificial love. Other than that, love is love. Sacrifice just makes it stand in greater relief.

Did I clarify my terms or just hijack the thread again :)