Total compensation is not “salary”.

Easy to pay high salaries when it's OPM on the line and you (the business owner) have already cashed out FU money and have significantly abstracted the hiring process away from yourself by letting your middle managers pretend they are Google.

The way that this ends is either I'm wrong and everything's cool, or WeWork and you're all fired, thanks for your hard work.

It will be interesting to see how it plays out.