Investors risk losing money and should be rewarded for the risk. But its only money. Employees risk something far more valuable, their time. You can never get

Investors risk losing money and should be rewarded for the risk. But its only money. Employees risk something far more valuable, their time. You can never get that back. Employees would forgo _some_ money (their bonuses) and they would have wasted all that time working for an unprofitable business.