Breaking news from the office of fallacies: People are fungible! Seriously speaking, however, money is a pretty major problem. It is hard not to feel unfairly

Breaking news from the office of fallacies: People are fungible! Seriously speaking, however, money is a pretty major problem. It is hard not to feel unfairly treated when the lawyers working on translating your product into patentese make 5-6x per hour that you do. Of course, I have equity. I don't know how I'd feel were I an engineer, paid market rate, without it. Why is the market rate for engineers so low, compared with other professionals? Do they need a union? Negotiations class? What is it?