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FANG employee developers can earn more than directors, and as you go up the pay scale, more of a software developers pay is equity compensation.

Directors of the S&P500 earn median $300k per directorship including equity compensation: “The combination of cash and equity changes has pushed pay levels to a new milestone in the history of GECAT’s annual study, and median total direct compensation (TDC) now rests at $300,000” https://www.wtwco.com/en-US/Insights/2022/12/2022-director-c...

And your point is kind of irrelevant to what I was saying. I am arguing relatively, many software engineers at FANG earn what most people would call “obscene salaries”.

If you want to argue executives or directors are overpaid, you also need to consider why (a) highly paid software developers are not overpaid, and (b) why your solution shouldn’t be applied to everybody in the USA as a whole (given the USA is extracting money from poor people and poor countries worldwide).

Edit: actually, on rereading your 5X argument, I realise I just won’t try to understand your point. I need more objective numbers to work with when trying to understand an argument. I won’t be adding to this thread.