Couldn't agree more. The tech boom made a lot of people rich, you might call that egalitarian, and believe that you too could share in the wealth. The financia

Couldn't agree more. The tech boom made a lot of people rich, you might call that egalitarian, and believe that you too could share in the wealth. The financial class call that uncaptured value, and they have since altered the terms to prevent that. Naturally the company still wants to pretend otherwise so when you hear the TC you add USD to timebomb banana bucks and come out with a USD total. If you want equity start your own business. You are not in a position to get any of theirs. Edit: if you get RSUs and you can liquidate without lockup then that's much better. But still worse than cash.