Yeah it's false to equate risk to investment.

Risking 50 dollars is very different to a wage slave than to someone in the middle class.

You have to look at the situation they're risking putting themselves into, not the number of dollars or hours of labor they're risking.

It's like when conservatives say they're in favour of equality of opportunity (but not in favour equality of outcome, a total red herring but that's a different rant). Like when has there ever been equality of opportunity?