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By no means an expert but I have run into these kinds of startup job offerings and they use cult like language to demand your fealty. They often ask you to be available on call pretty much all the time. Sometimes these positions are dressed up as "founding" positions which makes it sound like a descriptor for the ownership that comes with the position but in reality it just means that you are the one of the first persons in the department.
The foundations are the blood and bones of the working class
Eh, as long as the worker gets stock in the company that they can cash out later if the startup goes big, then the treatment is kinda whatever. That is the tacit deal.
Never work for a brand new startup for the pay. Work for the opportunity of getting rich on its stock.
Startup competition is the progressive part of capitalism. As socialists, we can use them to quickly iteratively develop technologies and production (E.g. China). Only once the startups have become monopolies or have started making money in ways detrimental to society do they have to be controlled/nationalized for further socialist development.
Really? I've heard most startups are kinda corrupt, especially when they involve private equity