The perks of FAANG are there, IMO, to pay the employees with a feeling of high-class status. Meanwhile, from an economic-class perspective, engineering is essen

The perks of FAANG are there, IMO, to pay the employees with a feeling of high-class status. Meanwhile, from an economic-class perspective, engineering is essentially blue-collar - it’s mostly about things and not (directly) about people. It’s a weird dichotomy.