If by defeatist attitude it is meant acknowledging the reality that some people have a head start or immense amount of luck than I'm not only a defeatist, I am a Christian during the 31th December 999, 11:59:59PM waiting for the apocalypse.
I have a family relative, one of the most lazy people in the world, that some day found herself rich. How? Hard work? Business value? Education? No, she discovered she had a grandaunt and that she would be the heiress of three 300000EUR houses, plus half a million euro. The scene seemed out of a 90s love comedy, if only it weren't tragic.
Starting with money is a bane. (I know, you’ll find the worst-of-the-worst example of poverty just to be right, like “What if you are in the middle of nothing and have unrelated skills”, but hear me). People who start with money have way-too-high costs and are incapable of optimizing the business. They run inefficient companies.
So, if you start with money, you end up like WeWork. You may renew your money but nobody likes you.
I have a family relative, one of the most lazy people in the world, that some day found herself rich. How? Hard work? Business value? Education? No, she discovered she had a grandaunt and that she would be the heiress of three 300000EUR houses, plus half a million euro. The scene seemed out of a 90s love comedy, if only it weren't tragic.