Employer's have salary ranges they will pay. If you want above that range you need to be incredibly special for an employer to consider, ie. a public figure in the industry.
If you are willing to take considerably more risk than an employee and are the 20% or so of entrepreneur's that succeed then your income can be unbounded as you say. But, that's substantially different than salary, and not what the article and this thread is about.
Employer's have salary ranges they will pay. If you want above that range you need to be incredibly special for an employer to consider, ie. a public figure in the industry.
If you are willing to take considerably more risk than an employee and are the 20% or so of entrepreneur's that succeed then your income can be unbounded as you say. But, that's substantially different than salary, and not what the article and this thread is about.