I have a different test. How far can you get with zero "employees", meaning no equity? Salaries with no equity just keep you on the economic treadmill. Thus

I have a different test. How far can you get with zero "employees", meaning no equity? Salaries with no equity just keep you on the economic treadmill. Thus I feel somehow it's unethical and expliotative to employ anyone the traditional way. When I read stories about immigrants folding cardboard boxes for HP printers all day, to me that is not an acceptable cost of having a successful company. Of course then there's the issue of motherboard manufacturers in China and Taiwan using sweatshop conditions or something close to it -- making products we all use -- and people claiming this is an improvement for those workers. I find the whole notion of people having to work dead-end jobs -- often in poor or even appalling conditions -- just so they won't starve, to be extremely distasteful.