Edit: My snark isn't toward rday's response, but rather, to the hypothetical downmodder from rday's response. I should have been more clear. I think the fallac

Edit: My snark isn't toward rday's response, but rather, to the hypothetical downmodder from rday's response. I should have been more clear. I think the fallacy that is committed in any alternative scheme is assuming a fixed value for each individual for the life of the company. Why not just set the bar right to begin with: everyone contributes as much value as they can, and we all share it. Consider an alternative: everyone contributes as much value as they can, but the dude who put in $5 20 years ago and doesn't even show up any more gets 10,000 more parts of every $1 I produce today. >The complication is that startups BPMF shouldn't be hiring at all, but few of them realize that It is curious that you state this as if there are BPMF startups. How does such a thing happen? A BPMF startup sounds more like a research center.