Agree and in fact employee ownership gets lumped in with socialism as do unions. An equity option at least allows you to be paid in virtual capital that may or

Agree and in fact employee ownership gets lumped in with socialism as do unions. An equity option at least allows you to be paid in virtual capital that may or may not materialize. Direct stock grants or RSUs at least give you the option to be a capitalist. Otherwise we all have our retirements in 401ks makes us de-facto capitalists too. We're supposed to eventually live off of those investments.