These high salaries are taking from the top, not the bottom. More than any other industry right now, tech workers are making a significant fraction of the compensation of the people at the top of the management food chain. You can bet it rustles management jimmies when they see their workers living the same lifestyle as them! That's just un-American.
So yes, exactly the same way. Having more people of a healthy weight makes those who are obese stand out more. The fit person shifts average weight away from the obese.
Nobody would dream of criticizing the fit person for making the obese seem fatter in comparison though, because it is plainly clear that when a person gets fitter other people don't become fatter. Despite how the variance of the population changes depending on how fit or fat individuals get, the fit person is not to blame for the obese. Dieting does not make others fatter, and having a high salary does not make others poorer.
In the same way that being fit makes obese people feel singled out?