Most engineers here get like £60k salary (£3600 a month after PAYE tax), while companies they work for make billions out of their work. Not only that, but they also don't contribute back into the local communities, because they use aggressive tax avoidance strategies. Corporations need to start sharing their profits with the workers and pay taxes otherwise it will eventually spark another revolution.
They do.
Not that I personally believe they deserve it. For the exact same reasons I don't think a CEO is not "worth" thousands of engineers, I don't think that just because you happened to graduate in ML you are worth tens/hundred times more that the others.
Or more accurately maybe they are worth that much, but the general population is severely underpaid.
What’s wrong is that these companies make billions, most of it because they happened to get to the top of the food chain.
When Hinton, Krishevsky, and Sutskever sold DNNresearch (incorporated only days before) to Google, their $44 million crossed that line too, since the company had no products or IP that was independent of UToronto, AFAIK. The three were effectively "hired" as indep contributors.