Every single western "entrepreneur" who starts making a little more than 100k/year likes to tell itself this story.

Did you have any (real, not GenZ) mental or physical disability?

Did you have a house to come back to every day? Did you have a hot meal waiting for you whenever you wanted?

Did you have a community that supported you through your business?

Did you have a legal structure around you that allowed you not to worry about getting kidnapped/killed? A structure that enforces getting paid after you've earned your money?

98% of what you have was given.

I do agree, however, that a lot of people don't even bother to put in the remaining 2%.

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raw_anon_1111 18 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

What’s even funnier when I hear that my thought is “congratulations I guess??”. They are now making less than an average mid level developer doing CRUD enterprise dev 3 years out of school in any major metro area in the US.

That’s not even considering that the intern I mentored in 2021 is now making in the low $200s as an SA at BigTech at 25.

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cadamsdotcom 42 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

“Can you start a business without $10m of family capital” is a societal question.

“Can you start a business on an empty stomach without a roof over your head” is not the same debate. A roof over your head is a prerequisite to almost everything else in life - starting a business is WAY down the list. Better to have societies work to provide food and roofs - which they do, with varying degrees of success.

	▲	moralestapia 15 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		It is the exact same debate. People without those things cannot play the lottery as many times as those who have them. They might not even get to play it once. If everyone around you has all of those basic human needs met, you are the exception. But of course people don't like to hear this, because their whole meritocracy myth (which has always been trash) comes falling down and they might be forced to admit that, please excuse me for making this outrageous statement, ... you're just an average person with slightly better luck than others. (It is true, however, that "luck" compounds through your life and even more through generations, though. But that even detracts from the meritocracy myth even more, as the family you're born in greatly defines what you'll achieve.)

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LPisGood an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

All of those things are great and should be afforded to every Person. In many places, they are.