"The cool thing about this industry is, if you’re good, you’ll make a ton of money," says Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter. "I just don’t have a whole lot of sympathy for people who say ‘I worked for such-and-such, and I didn’t get paid, and that’s not fair’. If you want to be an hourly employee, go build automobiles, and what will happen is they’ll close down your autoplant some day and you’ll be out of work."