> Opportunity is often missed because it looks like work. Man that is 180 degrees from my perception. Opportunity is often declined because a failed inventor

> Opportunity is often missed because it looks like work. Man that is 180 degrees from my perception. Opportunity is often declined because a failed inventor (and most inventors fail) looks like someone who got nothing done. It looks like non-work. Upper-middle class westerners can get away with this, because they've got enough capital to weather the period of speculative effort, and when it fails, they've got enough connections to get paid employment afterward. A poorly capitalized, poorly connected person who messes around in a shed for two years and produces a pile of non-functional junk has a much harder time getting back into the game afterward, and they know this going in. Not everyone can afford to be seen failing.