We caught wind of the CEO asking our manager why his developers weren't working all night, why he didn't ever see us sleeping under our desks in the morning. 

It was a startup, but only a handful of employees had any equity, mostly just the C-suite. We weren't even paid all that well.

In an all-hands meeting, our CEO said, without an ounce of irony, "thank you for making my dreams come true."

This is what corporate America has become.

Executives and founders with dreams, and the rest of us slaving to make them come true.

Our industry needs a major shift towards self-employment and worker owned and managed organizations.

We need to start making our own dreams come true.