I appreciate this topic and am definitely in the proletariat camp.

I've made other people rich multiple times, with my ideas and effort, and gotten dick in return. I definitely would have been better off with a corporate job.

To my shame, I honestly don't understand the accounting behind all this. You'd think I'd learn. But each time I've been screwed a new way. Not knowing how to defend myself, I've mostly opted out. Which also doesn't seem like a good strategy.