The title is enough? I want people to think back who they knew helped create a business and then were not allowed to work at it and make good money, help steer it to successes and out of troubles as needed. It is very similar to helping create a purpose, a vessel, and then not on the crew that sails it for cargo and exploration.
The ones left behind. And I don’t mean the leaderships in big palaces and castles. See them? Now look down… down… squint if you need to, get some glasses… yes! Those small ones at their feet. They are called “subjects”. Some are well funded and well known to a government, dynasty, city, region… some are not at all. Not all are seen at the foot, or base of leadership because they did all their work in the field, far from home–even retired still far from the palaces and castles. They may have been paid once or twice by leadership and waved goodbye early in life and that was it. Meanwhile the vessel they helped create sailed on for generations and was famous and wealthy to many.
What you may not have thought of, is that small person who helped create a vessel may have only sailed a short time and then was retired.* Their life goals of sailing around the world and finding new territories, meeting thousands of people, creating businesses in far away lands and making a lot of money never happened. It doesn’t make them a loser or responsible for families of sailors either. That subject actually got another life, maybe one they and others didn’t expect. Worse: if they got robbed or mugged, even just ill the original leadership/sponsorship may have never seen them in person again.
*Being unknown! In business, some start up people may step back into the company a few times later(thinking they promised the leadership) however may not have been known to the new people. Similar to jumping on the famous vessel, sailing with the current crew for a few hundred miles and then jumping off again. The crew may not have known who this person was, may have thought they were too poor to be a leader, too weak to be crew… all kinds of things. May have even thought they were competition because they know the ship or the routes better than the captain–who then wants to make them walk the plank, even robs them, steals notes on the ship or map they are working on and throws them in the brig! Thus the danger of returning to a business already started, and the start up person(or group) is a stranger.