Downside: https://saidit.net/s/LateStageCapitalism/ .

Another downside: Being tarred and feathered or even epstein'd once your investors / stakeholders realize that you start putting your own greed over theirs.

Your greed usually grows with the numbers in your bank accounts: i don't even know a single instance where it lessened by getting richer.

Why would you freely jump into a snake pit when the only thing it actually can offer is some arbitrary number of FIAT-money ?