[tptacek]

This would be wittier if dividing tips was anything at all like allocating equity; in reality, the only thing the two problems share is arithmetic operators.

[zeteo]

Blunt contradiction does not really make an argument. If you had something more precise to say than "give less equity to people who joined later" - now that would be interesting.

[tptacek]

Well, in comparing tip splits to equity allocation, I observe that only one of those activities involves predicting the future.