All you say about motivation is true.  People should be in this field and at smaller riskier companies because they love tech and they love changing the world.<p>But what possible argument can be made that if&#x2F;when the company DOES mint billionaires and multimillionaires, it should only be the two or three founders and the investors that keep up to 95% of the haul?<p>Your point would be appropriate if the problem was people not joining companies at all because no one would make money off them.  Not the case.  A few people will make money and lots of it. It&#x27;s time now for employees to demand much higher equity.