[Vegenoid]

The point is that many would view Google SWEs as being in the highest echelons. Generally, people who get paid very large amounts of money under capitalism are seen as being hypocritical when they criticize capitalism, if they aren't using their wealth to make change.

It's not that their criticism isn't valid, it's the feeling that they are perpetuating and benefiting from capitalism more than 99% of people, so they are all talk and no walk.

[smsm42]

If there was some valid criticism, it'd warrant some engagement on merits. But it's not even that. It's just "I've got laid off from my extremely lucrative job, and probably will land a similarly lucrative job within a short time, therefore the whole societal system must be overthrown". It's not a criticism, it's just some kind of mental tick - any time anything bad happens, say some fashionable nonsense about capitalism being awful. As they saying goes, it's not even wrong! It's just lazy.