> Still, employees receive cash dividends every few weeks (a salary), isn't that a positive? People are usually foregoing part of the salary in lieu of options

> Still, employees receive cash dividends every few weeks (a salary), isn't that a positive? People are usually foregoing part of the salary in lieu of options. e.g. $25k paycut (really conservative compared to FAANG) will come up to $100k over 4 years. One can consider those $100k as cost of options you get.