> Personally, I never understood how you could even pay someone 100k TC

I grew up fairly poor (what Americans consider "poor"), home was a double-wide trailer, best my mum could do for food was peanut butter and crackers.

Got better in later years towards the end of childhood.

But a combination of: the above, being homeless for a while, and working a lot of jobs like manual labor/landscaping, dishwashing, food service, retail etc for minimum wage gave me perspective.

I honestly don't have any clue why I get as paid as much as I do.

I'm not complaining. Employer, if you're reading this, don't take my money away lmao. I'm finally not poor anymore.

But my life was fucking miserable for $8/hr and in tech now I make (what feels like) ludicrous money for work that isn't even hard.

World is real backwards in a lot of ways.

Would you rather more money go to management and stock holders? Folks doing the work and making the world more productive deserve a larger share of the pie, not a smaller one.

That’s less than the GDP per employee in the US.