an employee is not taking risk "investing in time" in a company, because they are paid wages for it.
If it were the case that employees need to put in capital into the business before being employees, then it would be a different story. In fact, those schemes exist - they're called MLM, or multi-level-marketing schemes, where you pay the company upfront to buy the product, and try to sell it at a profit (like herbalife), and try to recruit on behalf of the company!
If it were the case that employees need to put in capital into the business before being employees, then it would be a different story. In fact, those schemes exist - they're called MLM, or multi-level-marketing schemes, where you pay the company upfront to buy the product, and try to sell it at a profit (like herbalife), and try to recruit on behalf of the company!