Devils advocate for a minute… she got offered a job and negotiated a deal. Good on her if she got away with it.
My last job outside of aviation was to make money with diggers and trucks. The boss didn't care if I worked 1 hour/day or 16. So long as I made money. I suggest her boss isn't much different.
I suspect however as time goes on, and the mothership starts running out of subsidies the heat may well come on.
In which case, we'll see just how true NN's last sentence becomes…
It also quite possible that she has no idea what she has just got herself into and just shooting off some idealistic propaganda.