That's just a long way of saying that if you wanna get rich, learn how to write code and talk to people. Way easier than becoming one of the top 3-400 streamers in the world.
[0] https://www.indeed.com/career/senior-software-engineer/salar...
Also, you linked to the wrong job title. I said "senior staff" software engineer, which where I work is two rungs above senior engineer. http://levels.fyi has comp estimates for a bunch of the big tech cos. $750k far from an unreasonable amount for someone to make in this line of work, and plenty of folks make a lot more than that.
1. Indeed, Glassdoor and other mainstream sites are useless and at best report outdated base salaries. Use levels.fyi or teamblind.com for more realistic data.
2. 50% or more or the compensation at these companies is in RSUs. These companies have performed remarkably well over the past decade. Folks who have had exposure to their stocks as employees have done very well.
3. Half a million dollars a year (before refreshers, etc.) is entirely realistic at the Staff level and at Senior Staff, you're often looking at anything from $700K to low $1MM.
For these companies, the scope and weight of someone at that level of work if impact across millions/billions of users and their actions can make or lose you similar amounts of money.
People are generally paid based on how hard they are to replace, not by how much profit they generate. But in some markets, this results in people making terrible wages while the company makes tons of money, ie, Wal-mart and basically all the major fast food chains.
Corporations are so used to applying arbitrary values to ephemeral things on their balance sheets that I think such a mentality seeps over into highly skilled employees in some cases.
In other cases, the business's viability is determined by how many minimum wage (or better yet, off the books entirely) laborers can be obtained in a given week. See: every construction project in every US state, for example.
Bezos doesn't have to work. To be honest, I don't know why he still does. Personally, if the stock options at the startup I work with end up panning out to be worth $5M or more if/when they go public in a few years, I'm taking that cash and retiring at 45. Throwing it into an S&P500 index, I could live off the interest for the rest of my life.
That's being irrationally dismissive of the effort and merit it takes to win in an attention market in a particular way purely because of a personally biased judgement of value.
The real genetic lottery winner on Twitch is being a white male given the relate-ability to the majority of Twitch's audience, and as the data leaked supports.
I mean even consider the cost those creators have to bear of dealing with people who are constantly claiming that their success in somehow invalid.
justice? hardly.