I&#x27;m probably not seeing the difference but it almost seems like by this logic a busboy (busperson?), the person that cleans up the dishes at a restaurant is owed $$$$$$$ because he could have gotten a higher paying job so he&#x27;s sacrificing for the rest of us?<p>Is a fast food worker who goes to company A at $8 a hr but expects to move up into a management position and then gets denied, is he owed money because he could have gone to company B at $10 but without a management position expectation?<p>Employees and founders get paid. So it&#x27;s lower than market rate it&#x27;s still &gt; 0 which means zero risk. They get a tiny piece of the pie. If things fail they still got &gt; 0 whereas investors got &lt; 0.  You want the big payoff you have to take the big risk.