Edit: My snark isn&#x27;t toward rday&#x27;s response, but rather, to the hypothetical downmodder from rday&#x27;s response. I should have been more clear.<p>I think the fallacy that is committed in any alternative scheme is assuming a fixed value for each individual for the life of the company.<p>Why not just set the bar right to begin with: everyone contributes as much value as they can, and we all share it. Consider an alternative: everyone contributes as much value as they can, but the dude who put in $5 20 years ago and doesn&#x27;t even show up any more gets 10,000 more parts of every $1 I produce today.<p>&gt;The complication is that startups BPMF shouldn&#x27;t be hiring at all, but few of them realize that<p>It is curious that you state this as if there are BPMF startups. How does such a thing happen? A BPMF startup sounds more like a research center.