Further, I don't think it's that uncommon for entrepreneurs to see the employer-employee relations as the following:
- being an employer is a status in which you take risks
- being an employee is a status in which you avoid risks
Blaming the other for their current status is dumb, regardless of on which side you are.
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/entrepreneurshi...
Do you consider making a profit as opposed to making a loss to be equivalent with "getting rich"?
Do people have a right to be paid for their work that benefits others?
Unfortunately starting around the first Internet boom a ton of people showed up here feeling differently and it really fucked things up.
I think people working for equity as part of their compensation would disagree with you.
Personally, when I've been (as I am now) an employee that has received equity as part of my compensation, the fact that I'm receiving equity doesn't make me feel that I'm taking a risk. In terms of my daily thinking, I don't even count the equity position at all -- at best, it's pure gravy. The only thing I really count is the actual money I'm paid.