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Whoa, the article is ageist, and proud of it. Though this program is geared toward people of all ages, young people are the best suited to maximize its advanta
by rada 15y ago
Whoa, the article is ageist, and proud of it.
Though this program is geared toward people of all ages, young people are the best suited to maximize its advantages. Older generations tend to have families and other financial obligations, making it more difficult for them to transition into the roles of entrepreneurs.
I am married with a young child, and my salary covers all of my family's expenses, so my husband doesn't have the pressure to get cashflow-positive out of the gate. Contrast that with my younger, single self, when I burned through the start-up capital in a matter of months and had to take consulting gigs just to stay afloat on office expenses.
Young people can more easily adapt to less expensive lifestyles.
Young people care a lot more about what others think, the very foundation of "expensive lifestyles".
Further, young people have access to a wide range of resources, such as Income Based Repayment (IBR), SCORE, Startup America, [...]
IBR is a student loan repayment program, nothing to do with entrepreneurship. SCORE is open to all small businesses (and a waste of time, in my experience). Startup America targets young companies, not young people. And so on...
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- bentlegen 15y ago> Young people care a lot more about what others think, the very foundation of "expensive lifestyles". Speaking of ageist ...
- natnat 15y agoYoung people tend to be single, which means they have a lot more at stake in terms of public image than married people do.
- ajross 15y agoI read those statements as demographic, not judgemental. A median 40-something does indeed tend to have a family, more financial obligations, a more expensive lifestyle, etc... Those are just presented as facts, and while I don't have the statistics handy they jive pretty well with my 39-year-old intuition. Nothing is saying entrepreneurship is impossible for the middle-aged, just that it's harder.
- thebooktocome 15y agoWhile I agree that the statements are not judgemental, I disagree that they are not so merely because they are presented as facts. It's entirely possible to present facts in a light that makes them ageist (or X-ist, for some value of X).
- webwright 15y agoIsn't it okay to make general statements? I mean, if you grabbed 100 random 20 year olds and 100 random 40 year olds, wouldn't the 40 year old folks have more financial obligations? Certainly you can find counter-examples-- older folks who are financially secure and young people with bad attitudes or bad burn rates... But I don't think if you say, "Tall people are better at dunking basketballs" that you're really being unfair to all of the shorter people who are great at dunking, are you?