I realize we are on a forum/platform that is home to a disproportionately high number of wealthier individuals, but are you actually suggesting that $250 million annually is "table scraps"?

... which still isn't table scraps. median income in the US is $30k.

I am a software engineer, but even I have a hard time finding deep sympathy for people complaining that they are making 10x the median salary but they should have made 20x.

Call me old-fashioned, but at the end of the day in our industry, what's "fair" is what you agreed to. None of the people in the cold-calling scandal were forbidden from making overtures to the competing companies or being hired by them. And it's real hard for me to dredge up feelings of injustice for the embarrassed sub-millionaire when so many are forced to figure out how to live on 1/10th of that money.

If you don't like your Google salary, just put your resume in at Apple. That's my advice.

Ah crap, that's what I get for posting in the middle of the night while wide awake and sick. Thanks for the correction, and agreed - the difference between $250 million and $250k doesn't change my point.

Yep! Hence why I started my post with "can be", not "is" or "was". We'd have to actually ask whoever "[REDACTED]" is to know how they felt. FWIW, the 28 upvotes my comment received would anecdotally suggest that there are many others who feel a bit differently than you there.

>It’s (almost invariably) not cool to be someone else’s meat. Even if you know you’re very highly valued meat, and even if they affirm that your value as meat is very high indeed.

Also yep! That sentiment should've been implied by the last part of my sentence in that comment. If that wasn't clear, then it is now.