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Was this supposed to be inspiring? It seems the author is just complaining about how this countries best and brightest go on to work in finance or management in
by wyre 4y ago
Was this supposed to be inspiring? It seems the author is just complaining about how this countries best and brightest go on to work in finance or management instead of using their talents to start a business. Which is true obv, but it doesn’t offer any real solutions or answers.
Starting a business is hard; find an unsolved problem and then work your ass off until it’s solved and the solution can be marketed. It takes a certain type of person to be able to succeed in this endeavor, while the rest are going to be better off in their cushy office job where they can have something of a work-life balance.
It takes a lot of money and experience to build something meaningful in the industries the author mentioned. Healthcare, energy, housing, education, and transportation. It must take a lot of insider knowledge to be able to identify the unsolved problems in these industries. A Harvard MBA won’t know how to fix the healthcare industry, but I bet a nurse that’s working 60 hours this week has some ideas. The former might have the connections and capital to build the change but they lack the experience and motivation, while the latter could have the solution, but lacks the connections, time, and money to build the solution.
- zelphirkalt 4y agoThe best and brightest do not work in finance or management. They become mathematicians, physicists, astrophysicists, chemists maybe also computer science and other areas of research. They are more interested in discovery, than rising through the ranks of management or possession of great wealth. They research in their area of expertise with a passion. Of course they are not all business starters or entrepreneurs. The things society and competition, and law put you through when starting a business could well mean, that these people would never even consider starting a business, because it would take away way too much of their time, which they spend on working on the fringes of human knowledge. They simply don't have the time for such mundane things.
- wyre 4y agoI totally agree with you. I never said that the best and brightest go on to do finance and management, but that’s what the author was alluding too.