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“President of Signal getting paid less than a principal engineer” must be the take here. The same argument applies to Wikipedia: it’s a blessing these people accept working for <1M. They could easily get a job for triple the salary elsewhere but choose to forfeit it for principles.

pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop-that-bubble/ It’s a long article but absolutely worth it. I don’t want to put an tl;dr here because every word there is worth reading.