I don't think this way of looking at it is helpful either.
Sometimes the rich kid was abused by his dad and it ate him up inside and he turned to drugs and died of an overdose at 25 years old.
Sometimes the middle class kid came from a father that survived as a child in WW2 with undiagnosed metal scars to prove it.
Sometimes the poor kid learns plumbing from his dad then starts and scales a business up to millions in sales.
We don't live in North Korea. A great deal of your future in a country in the west is based on how hard you try and, yes, some intangibles that are beyond your control, but it's no where close to "the rich kid kept buying darts until he won while one in fifty middle class kids actually made it."
Furthermore, entrepreneurship is just one of many hard games. And yes, the rich have an advantage at this specific game and less so because of their access to money and more so their access to their parents that are often successful at navigating society for capital formation. But the rewards of being a successful founder are pretty limited. Slightly better tasting wine. Larger hotel rooms. Softer sheets.
When you actually add up all the real benefits of winning at forming a company, you'll find that they pale in comparison to other games, many of which are easier, but some of which are harder or MUCH harder.
People today barely remember who Rockefeller is. He's the name a fancy building near the middle of the city to most people. That will be Bill Gates. That will be Steve Jobs. That will be so many of our supposed HN heros. If humanity makes it a couple hundred years, more people will remember Putin and Biden. Their games are harder. They ultimately matter more. And if legacy is more important than threadcounts then their rewards are much larger.
I think it is more important to find out what is true and what is false and to embrace the truth and help others than it is to win at business. And if it matters at all to you, I've founded a couple of failed companies and one that was acquired and I still think tech entrepreneurship can be a good thing, but only to a point.
“Sometimes the rich kid was abused by his dad and it ate him up inside and he turned to drugs and died of an overdose at 25 years old.
Sometimes the middle class kid came from a father that survived as a child in WW2 with undiagnosed metal scars to prove it.
Sometimes the poor kid learns plumbing from his dad then starts and scales a business up to millions in sales.“
That doesn't mean his dad's a plumber, it means his dad showed him some basic plumbing and he took an interest in it that later turned into a career. That's fairly basic reading comprehension so the "........." like I'm an idiot isn't necessary when you're the one adding a bunch of additional context that isn't there.
Sometimes the rich kid was abused by his dad and it ate him up inside and he turned to drugs and died of an overdose at 25 years old.
Sometimes the middle class kid came from a father that survived as a child in WW2 with undiagnosed metal scars to prove it.
Sometimes the poor kid learns plumbing from his dad then starts and scales a business up to millions in sales.
We don't live in North Korea. A great deal of your future in a country in the west is based on how hard you try and, yes, some intangibles that are beyond your control, but it's no where close to "the rich kid kept buying darts until he won while one in fifty middle class kids actually made it."
Furthermore, entrepreneurship is just one of many hard games. And yes, the rich have an advantage at this specific game and less so because of their access to money and more so their access to their parents that are often successful at navigating society for capital formation. But the rewards of being a successful founder are pretty limited. Slightly better tasting wine. Larger hotel rooms. Softer sheets.
When you actually add up all the real benefits of winning at forming a company, you'll find that they pale in comparison to other games, many of which are easier, but some of which are harder or MUCH harder.
People today barely remember who Rockefeller is. He's the name a fancy building near the middle of the city to most people. That will be Bill Gates. That will be Steve Jobs. That will be so many of our supposed HN heros. If humanity makes it a couple hundred years, more people will remember Putin and Biden. Their games are harder. They ultimately matter more. And if legacy is more important than threadcounts then their rewards are much larger.
I think it is more important to find out what is true and what is false and to embrace the truth and help others than it is to win at business. And if it matters at all to you, I've founded a couple of failed companies and one that was acquired and I still think tech entrepreneurship can be a good thing, but only to a point.