Whether or not you intended it, this reads as a bad faith response: you’re claiming those are “the same group of people” as if we haven’t had more than a decade

Whether or not you intended it, this reads as a bad faith response: you’re claiming those are “the same group of people” as if we haven’t had more than a decade of commentary about the difference between the best paid FAANG employees and contractors working at the same place, or even awareness that those companies hire more than one role. For example, during the recent thread about Google closing a daycare there were many people saying only the executives could afford that and even fairly highly-ranked SREs struggled. A far more likely explanation is that your memory is grouping everyone who works at a FAANG in the same bucket rather than recognizing that there are multiple groups and the people who are doing well brag while the ones who aren’t complain.