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Unless you care for the company and you are a decent person that doesn't only care about money. We care about the organization, we care about our financials and we are just nice people. Money is less valuable to us than a nice environment and autonomy. We don't want to destroy this.

This requires a large amount of co-ordination, teamwork, and communication – exactly the qualities that 25 employees together are often most required to have in order to work efficiently.

I'd think the raise would be warranted :)

And then the company runs out of operating capital and you're all looking for jobs somewhere else?