A startup is a corporation with angels and VCs (who raise money from LPs).  Over time, the larger startups go on NASDAQ or the NYSE, and then after time issue dividends.  They expropriate the surplus labor time from the people who work and create the wealth of their company.<p>A corporation is a tool by one class to exploit and expropriate from another class, so asking how a startup&#x2F;corporation can help workers is contradictory.  The way to help workers is to abolish corporations and capitalism.<p>With the rise of capitalism came into existence a new category - unemployment.  The major US business magazines worry about unemployment - when it gets too low ( <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessweek.com&#x2F;1999&#x2F;99_44&#x2F;b3653163.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessweek.com&#x2F;1999&#x2F;99_44&#x2F;b3653163.htm</a> ).  Too many people who want work having work is seen as the problem.  Why?  Because a reserve army of labor is needed as a cudgel against those who are employed.<p>People don&#x27;t need to be convinced of this.  We can see what is happening as China has taken the capitalist road, in Greece, in Spain.  The fed funds rate went from next to nothing to 0.25% and the US stock market began tanking - after years and years of free money.  As Marx said, capitalism is like every economic system before it - a self-destructive one.  In some months, or some years, all the starry-eyed 20 somethings in San Francisco will be facing what the starry eyed 20 year olds of 2000-2001 went through - layoffs and no work.  The lucky ones will land some shit job for less pay.  I supposed if you have a doctorate in machine learning from MIT and are working at Google or Facebook you might not notice this happening, but everyone else will.<p>&quot;The angel market is drying up because the stock market went down and people have less money&quot;.  See and hear children.  Learn.<p>We don&#x27;t have to convince people of this.  The people controlling the capital will botch it up, the economy will tank more, and everyone will be told to &quot;tighten their belts&quot; except the type of people Graham writes hosannas for in his odes to wealth inequality.  Some fools will lick the boot kicking them, but not all will and we go from there.  Feudalism lasted maybe 1000 years, capitalism has been around in a real sense for maybe half that time, but many think it is more unstable than feudalism and will keel over faster.