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>A lottery has negative expected return, so I disagree that it's "higher expected return that a conventional job".

Well, doesn't a startup also have the same "negative expected return"? Or, actually, much worse?

(Considering that the majority of them fail and the money you could make just working for some company in the same time).

If anything, starting a startup is an investment.



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