>That would be a great retort except for the fact that there are people who care about inequality but aren't willing to take money from a system which is the very driver of inequality they preach against.
You know, I don't think anyone has ever deliberately kept themselves at minimum wage to make a point about capitalism.
I guess it's possible. Wikipedia doesn't have any information on on her work between getting her Comp Sci B.Sc in 1994 and her economics PhD sometime around ~2003.
She didn't move to Seattle until 2006, unless that's missing from her 1994-2003 bio; after she had left the CS field. Maybe not Microsoft then, but still tech money.
You know, I don't think anyone has ever deliberately kept themselves at minimum wage to make a point about capitalism.