I don't believe you. Top engineers are in a completely different bargaining category than regular, and especially junior engineers.
A junior engineer adopting "Steve Jobs is keeping me down" as his personal narrative probably has problems other than the games Silicon Valley billionaires play with each other.
Junior engineers are more likely to be affected precisely because of this reason; they have far less bargaining power than a top engineer and are subject to the standard “This is the salary band based on our research on our competitors' salaries”
A junior engineer adopting "Steve Jobs is keeping me down" as his personal narrative probably has problems other than the games Silicon Valley billionaires play with each other.