Because your pay comes from angel investors

You work for a startup with a few other people.

It has never made a profit.

It doesn’t need to, since it’s funded by angel investors.

They made some money of their own in their day.

They heard that there were extraordinary returns to be made being the earliest investors in a billion-dollar idea.

They figured that if they were smart enough to have made that money of their own in their day, they must be smart enough to recognize a billion-dollar idea when they saw it.

They handed their money to the bozos who are now your bosses.

You know that these bozos will never build a billion-dollar company.

You know that these bozos will never even put out a product that people will pay for.

You know that sooner or later, the startup will sink without a trace, along with all the angel investors’ money and all the work you put into that product.

The work you do every day will have been for naught.