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So which of "inherit, marry, steal" does successful exit as an early employee fall under?
by sombremesa 6y ago
So which of "inherit, marry, steal" does successful exit as an early employee fall under?
- reedf1 6y agoProbably a mixture of all three.
- rory 6y agoGenuine question-- How new is this phenomenon? What were the first companies to make non-founder employees rich?
- beamatronic 6y agoJack Welch got pretty rich and he wasn't the founder of GE. Perhaps you mean non-founder and non-executive?
- rory 6y agoYeah that's what I was aiming at. "Early employee stock options" or equivalent. I assume that kind of thing didn't exist in the periods this "wisdom" comes from, but I could be totally wrong.
- anonuser123456 6y agoSteal (obviously); the world is zero sum. Any money you have was taken from someone else. Probably an amazon truck driver who was forced at gun point into the job.
- fleischhauf 6y agoConfusingly i dont think its that simple. If you equate wealth to work, then with increased automatization, you can grow wealth without stealing it from someone else. Not saying that you can't increase wealth through exploitation though.
- AnimalMuppet 6y agoI think anonuser123456 was being sarcastic. The "forced at gunpoint" was, I think, a hint. There are those who hold the viewpoint that if you don't have money from a job, you're eventually going to run afoul of those with guns (police), so you are forced at gunpoint to work somewhere. I've seen people say that here on HN. This is why I'm not sure that it was sarcasm. But still, I suspect it was.
- fleischhauf 6y agoyeah, you are probably right. That would make a lot more sense.
- VBprogrammer 6y agoI think that would be under the deliberately excluded category of winning the lottery. It's so unlikely that it's pointless to add it.