I'll add to my previous: everybody at the company works for a salary. In the US it's essentially illegal to volunteer for an organization that is not some kind

I'll add to my previous: everybody at the company works for a salary. In the US it's essentially illegal to volunteer for an organization that is not some kind of 501(c), and in California it's illegal not to pay everybody at least minimum wage, so let's stop joking: nobody is working for free, and any employee taking minimum wage (or $1/yr) is wealthy already. I don't have patience for the, "oh they had a salary so they're whole." BS, everybody is working to make things better, and if the leadership of the company is not helping their employees get a chunk of the back-end then they are bad bosses. To me it's ethically related to not tipping in a restaurant.