I bet these engineers got only a tiny tiny fraction of the billions of revenue.
It always fascinates me how in the engineers' mind it reconciles that their work brings corporations they work for billions and yet they have to rent a tiny apartment for a substantial portion of their salary and otherwise lead a pretty average life. Then going to lavish offices witnessing how the money they could make use of is wasted on vanity.
That's the founding principle of capitalism: private property.
People living someplace don't own it, and people working some field don't own it. Some "owner" owns the land and means of production and extracts value from people doing the actual work.
Yes, it's a deeply broken system. A slightly better system revolves around self-organized workers coop where everyone gets equal pay and there are no shares to hold (or everyone owns the same amount). An even better system abolishes money and private property so that people can live meaningful/useful lives without worrying about imaginary numbers ruining their entire existence.
It always fascinates me how in the engineers' mind it reconciles that their work brings corporations they work for billions and yet they have to rent a tiny apartment for a substantial portion of their salary and otherwise lead a pretty average life. Then going to lavish offices witnessing how the money they could make use of is wasted on vanity.