All of this is a lot more diluted when the workers you're talking about already make much more than is required for comfortable subsistence. It's one thing to

All of this is a lot more diluted when the workers you're talking about already make much more than is required for comfortable subsistence. It's one thing to talk about self-loathing hurting the cause of workers struggling to meet their basic needs, but at the level of most employed software engineers, I'm not sure how much it matters. That said, I don't see any difference between engineers and executives in this regard, so if it's okay (by whatever measure) for one to receive multimillion-dollar bonuses, so it is for the other, IMHO.