I could say the same about your black and white thinking using outdated Chicago&#x2F;Neoclassic economic theories when applied to aggregate economies, but I digress.<p>I didn&#x27;t say they were built on the <i>charity</i> of the system, just that they were built <i>using</i> the system.<p>You act like the first 50 employees of your stupid app company aren&#x27;t taking a risk too. But they get 0.01%, while the founders get...? Fairly early on, you literally don&#x27;t have enough time in a day to do it all yourself, even if you wanted to, so you&#x27;re quite literally taking credit for more risk than you were actually able to take.<p>Considering Paul Graham&#x27;s essay about how most of the work is ahead of you even when you start adding employees, how is the risk so skewed towards initial conditions versus the long path ahead?<p>This toxic thinking that a twentysomething takes more risk by trying to start his own company while early in his career deserves <i>orders of magnitude</i> better compensation for the risk he took, over many career people that will have to be persuaded to risk their career and reputations on this new company, who have families, mortgages, and serious obligations to others?<p>He really took 1,000x more risk? Bullshit dude.