Yes, I could penny pinch to buy a house for an exorbitant sum. That also contributes to increasing housing prices. Or I can keep renting and saving for retirement. The fact is tech salaries are actually modest and everyone else is getting really screwed. The idea that tech workers are villains only plays into the hands of the truly wealthy.
> There’s a huge difference between being rich (or wealthy, not the same) and simply having more than someone else.
No. That's basically the definitions of those concepts. They are relative to how well off everybody else is.