Accountability is important because that's how you're going to get leverage. That's how you're going to get credibility

It's also how you're going to get equity you're gonna get a piece of the business when you're negotiating with other people

Ultimately if someone else is making a decision about how to compensate you that decision will be based on how

Replaceable you are and if you have high accountability that makes you less replaceable and then they have to give you equity

Which is a piece of the upside but equity itself is a good example because equity is also a risk-based

Instrument equity means you get paid everything after all the people who need guaranteed money are paid back

So if you look at the hierarchy of capital in a company the employees get paid first

They get to pay the salary first like in the legal proceedings, you know the salaries are

Sacrissant if you are a board member and the company spends too much money and has back salaries to pay the government will go after you

Personally to pay back the salaries so the employees get the most security

But in exchange for that security they don't have as much upside then next in line would be the debt holders who are maybe the bankers

Who lent money to the company for operations and they need to make their fixed coupon every month or every year

But they don't get much more upside beyond that now they might be making 5 10 15 20 25% a year

But that's where their upside is limited to and then finally are the equity holders and these people are actually going to get most of the upside

So once the debt holders are paid off and the salaries are paid off whatever remains goes to them

But if there isn't enough money to pay off the salaries in the debt holders or if there's just enough to pay off the salary in the debt holders

Which is what happens with most businesses most of the times the equity holders get nothing

So the equity holders take on greater risk

But then they take on in exchange they get nearly on the middle upside and you can do the same with all of your work

So essentially taking accountability for your actions is the same as taking an equity position in all of your work

You're essentially taking greater downside risk and greater upside risk

But realize that in modern society the downside risk is not that large

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