Salary is not the same as compensation. If we look at Amazon, they do something very similar as they have a salary cap which most employees hit at L6. They can

Salary is not the same as compensation. If we look at Amazon, they do something very similar as they have a salary cap which most employees hit at L6. They can then say 'Even the CEO hits this same salary cap' when in reality the former CEO was the wealthiest person in the world. Oxide is clever in being provocative here but this is part of a totally normal compensation model.