I'm not sympathetic to the plight of googlers making only $750k a year, but I do find the general indifference and tone-deafedness of upper management a little bit surprising.
Hey Ruth Porat and Sundar Pichai:
Can you guess what happened next? I bet Sundar can explain it all with 3 simple words.
It so irritates me to see the "Amazon doubles salary" argument. Amazon didn't double the total package, they just reapportioned it to compensate for less expected stock profit.