> It's difficult for me to understand whether the founders of these companies are genuinely deluded, or whether they just hope to find someone dumb enough to bu

> It's difficult for me to understand whether the founders of these companies are genuinely deluded, or whether they just hope to find someone dumb enough to buy into their "mission"? There is also the desperate. People that have just been laid off elsewhere with no cash reserves, people just trying to break into the industry (they mention a student loan allowance), people with a criminal record, the list goes on. Preventing the desperate from being exploited is why we have labor laws to begin with.