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Seems like it, for the simple reason that the infrastructure and process for an average person becoming rich is in place now in a way it wasn't in the 80s. For
by jxidjhdhdhdhfhf 6y ago
Seems like it, for the simple reason that the infrastructure and process for an average person becoming rich is in place now in a way it wasn't in the 80s. For example there are startup incubators, VCs and general startup culture.
- SavantIdiot 6y agoHardly. Or rather, only if you fall into a small sliver of society. You are describing startup a "website/app company". There is an entire industry for trying to find the next TikTok. Unfortunately that is the ultimate unicorn. That immediately winnows the crowd down to maybe 10% that have degrees / knowledge of computer science? There isn't really any other "startup" culture right now except hoodie-wearning Rust/JavaScript/Python programmers interested in machine learning. It is a monoculture, and if you don't program, you ain't in it. Becoming "rich" isn't even accessible to 90% of the US population.
- jxidjhdhdhdhfhf 6y agoI mean I'm not sure what it would even mean for becoming rich to be accessible to 90% of the population since the definition of rich is having above average means. It seems like only the lottery would fit there. On the other hand it seems much more accessible to go to school and get a degree in CS than to be born into wealth. For example, plenty of foreign students come here from poor countries and find there way into the startup world.