you'd be surprised! people seem to have a limitless appetite for that money stuff. they just can't get enough of it, i've found
We don't hear about Tom from MySpace.
Maybe Noam measures status differently.
All those engineers making 20M a year at Anthropic and OpenAI are going to back down to normal super high comp of 700k a year after their starter grants run out, and yes many will quit but the people who stay aren't moving the needle on their finances that much.