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by AnIrishDuck 289 days ago
The reality is also that nobody (aside from Mark "I Want To Buy a State of the Art AI Research Lab" Zuckerberg) is even offering millions in cold hard cash.

Instead, they're offering something worse: the _chance_ to cash out equity that _might_ be worth that at _some_ point in the future.

Versus spending time with my kid right now. Or any of the hundreds of other more enjoyable things I can do with my time.

They're dangling a lottery ticket in front of us. I've seen the end of that movie several times myself now; enough to know the odds are long.

So yeah: no thanks.