Can someone provide counterpoints to this? I also think like OP, but people can’t sometimes comprehend such decision. I recently went to a job interview for st

Can someone provide counterpoints to this? I also think like OP, but people can’t sometimes comprehend such decision. I recently went to a job interview for startup, and they were selling me really (like, way below even average) crap salary in exchange for some options (not on contract, just verbal [on the approval, not even the amount]). I told them that I would take a bit more salary than what they were offering... You wouldn’t believe their faces. It’s like they couldn’t believe I was telling them I pretty much never had debts and I liked positive cash flow, hence my initial salary choice. They dared telling me I could ask for a loan if I needed to keep some of my businesses up. Anyways, I’m just saying that very few times I dare go negative. I have a house, car, and I travel from time to time (usually what I spent most of the positive flow in). I had to save tons of money for some, and others were result of some businesses. For the big ones mentioned I never went negative. I’m not saying it’s possible or everyone is lucky enough to happen to them, but these were people that have a lot of money from inheritances (I know them), and what I understood from the whole interview is that they always live without positive cash flows, personal and businesses alike.