Can whoever downvoted this explain why they did so?
One person says "collective values, worship of the free market." Another person says "there are poor people in Chicago." Finally there's a third person who says "people can't afford to live in their neighborhoods because cost of living got too expensive."
So they haven't agreed on the problem, but they agree on the enemy - it's the spoiled engineers and their high salaries.
Could it be possible that there are several problems at play here, at once? You can't look at situations as if they are black or white, or "us vs. them".