How many countless others have invested years of their lives, in exchange for equity and comparatively low pay, in promising-sounding startups only to see those companies fail?

Should they be retroactively counting the money they could have had if they'd went to a more stable firm and had the same years of pay increases, bonuses, RSUs, etc. as a loss?

This is hollow clickbait, but the author is clearly intelligent enough to know that hence why it's mainly focused on a youtube video which I'm presuming he's doing in the name of trying to build an audience and "clout" for himself with.