I'm sorry, we obviously have to go back to more basics with you as your understanding as to how it works is childish and limited.
"Who decides the compensation for insiders?" you ask. Well, duh, they do, (With Board oversight, which I accept includes the same people in a small company such as ours) Who else would decide? YOU? ME? That's not how it works. There are rules and they are following them. We are lending them our money to do with how they choose within the strictures of the law.
"Why don't they get paid a salary?" They didn't get paid a salary because there wasn't the money initially coming in. They took a risk (along with us) that there would be a future for this company, so they put the cost off until later with their share deals. NOT costing us earlier on. In fact, if Mr. Nelson hadn't bought SUNWorks with the money we lent him and future promises of growth, there would STILL be no income. These machinations have occurred before in other smaller and larger companies a couple of million times. People who invest are familiar with these procedures.
You appear to listen the common and ignorant rantings of the immature cynics on this website to whom ALL insider trades are unethical, and all CEO's are thieves.
They are not "selling like crazy". In fact its rather restrained in my mind.
"still have millions of shares" Its not dangerous, its par for the course. They will sell all of these shares eventually and indeed get more based on icentives, and, in time, sell those too.
My shares aren't worthless, they are a piece of a growing company and industry sector that I'm proud to take a risk with, in the belief that I will be rewarded. Risk, yes. All of the markets, even this company, involve risk. This point, I fear, is something you are not able to deal with. I suggest lottery tickets for you: low cost, with a potentially very high return.
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