[jedrek]

How is this a real submission?

Yes, a day job is easier, because a day job has a very real cap on your renumeration. Work for a company, create a product, have that product generate $50 million p/a in sales? Cool, you're still making the same bi-weekly $3000.

This is literally by design, and if you don't see it, what's going on?

[jstanley]

Work for a company, create a product, have that product totally flop and all the investors lose their money? Cool, you're still making the same bi-weekly $3000.

That's what a day job gets you.

[runako]

This is definitely not true in the US.

https://thespoon.tech/juicero-to-lay-off-25-of-staff-as-it-a...

https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/9/24032274/humane-layoffs-ai...

https://www.npr.org/2022/04/05/1091077398/checkout-startup-f...

etc.

[jstanley]

Sure, you can get fired. But that just means you're not earning any more. You're not losing the money you already had, like the investors did.

[Paul-Craft]

Just to continue the analogy, an employee's monetary down side is limited to the amount of their investment, which is $0, modulo ESPPs and such. Investors can be leveraged and end up losing a multiple > 1 of their initial investment.

[consp]

> Cool, you're still making the same bi-weekly $3000.

Most of the SE's around the world do not make that a month, the average is far less outside the FAANG bubble of the US.

[positr0n]

$3,000 biweekly is near starting salary for a software developer everywhere in the US.

"FAANG bubble" would almost be $3,000/day (if you're accounting for all perks and time off)