I think if you are making 200k a year (which you almost certainly are at Stripe) you probably aren't in a position to complain about salary. I don't have much sympathy for someone complaining that instead of making an absurd amount of money in an expensive area, they are now making a slightly less absurd amount of money in a cheap area.
This is the kind of thinking that keeps us focused on the middle income portion of the company - the 200k/year earners deserve it! - rather than the extreme wealth end. And it’s not a justification for cutting anyway, when the value produced by the employee is unchanged.
