Doesn't it make sense to aim at increasing wages at the lowest end, instead of targeting higher earners?
I get the sense that people in HN believe that most tech workers in the Bay Area are some sort of high rolling millionaires. They mostly are not, and the proof is that most are priced out of housing in SF too.
Saying that inequality is caused by tech workers is thus a myopic statement.
Why the shift? Is your problem that Musk is much richer than the 1% (inequality), or is it that there are people without anything at all?