Thats like saying programming is fancy way of saying "banging fingers on keyboard".

Let me paraphrase the parent:

"fiscal gibberish, fiscal gibberish, Then, in the very small chance that your equity is actually worth something [sic], fiscal gibberish, fiscal gibberish"

Sounds almost like the definition of a lottery to me.

> Thats like saying programming is fancy way of saying "banging fingers on keyboard".

perhaps you were referring to the 'infinite monkey theorem' ? i would rather believe programming to be nothing like that.

test driven development seems to encourage that. Bang away until it turns green.

You should try precisely that - much harder to do than it seems.

No, it really isn't. I agree roughly with the claim that you should plan your life based on the assumption that your stock options are quite likely to be worthless, but the comment you replied to is making specific and highly meaningful points that anyone receiving options really needs to understand.

The odds aren't THAT short.