I don't see how what I wrote led to this assumption. It's just that I don't value the shares in a startup - ever. I value the salary side, and enjoy the interesting work.
Founders shouldn't be exiting with massive rewards when the risk they took was only marginally higher than early employees.
Yeah, I enjoyed my time there and I learned a lot. But a mismanaged company shouldn't reward the management and leave employees with nothing after all is said and done.
So when you say you don't work at a startup for monetary reasons, and that you don't care about shares, which has an expected value of real money despite the uncertain outcome, it's natural to wonder if you don't care about compensation aka money.