How much of your upbringing was atypical? How much of it was due to familial influence? Or a unique environment? It's interesting how people tend to be blind to their own privilege.
There's this pervasive idea that those who are entrepreneurs are better than the rest and therefore justifies their wealth and status. There's this other equally pervasive idea that we're all exactly equal and therefore "if I did it, you could have as well".
I did it on the sly because my parents didn't want me doing it. They were pretty angry with me when they inevitably found out.
What I did was order greeting cards through the mail and sell them door to door.
A couple years later, my family moved to Germany, and lived on a US base. I discovered that German candy wasn't available in the US, and vice versa. So I contacted my best friend in the US, and we'd ship each other the missing candy and sell it to the other kids at school. If I'd been less of a dimwit, I could have made quite a bit more money at this than I did.
> There's this pervasive idea that those who are entrepreneurs are better than the rest and therefore justifies their wealth and status.
It has nothing to about being better. It is about entrepreneurs are willing to take the risk and make the effort, and that justifies their returns.
If you're not willing to take the risk and make the effort, that's your choice, not your lot (at least in America).
How much of your upbringing was atypical? How much of it was due to familial influence? Or a unique environment? It's interesting how people tend to be blind to their own privilege.
There's this pervasive idea that those who are entrepreneurs are better than the rest and therefore justifies their wealth and status. There's this other equally pervasive idea that we're all exactly equal and therefore "if I did it, you could have as well".