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I'm curious what you guys think of this. It very closely relates to something we see a lot here on HN, which is the call to leave the boring job at the "big co

• batista 15y ago
  The issue is that not everyone is cut out to be a successful entrepreneur, no matter how much effort they put into it. And I don't see this aspect discussed on HN much. A much more important issue is that the system cannot work, and actually WONT work, with everybody being an entrepreneur, so not only are not everyone cut for it, even if they were, they would still could not be. An economy NEEDS the office drones, the service workers, somebody to take out your garbage, etc etc. But this "everybody can be anything" is a fairy-tale ingredient of the American Dream, so it's not talked down that much. Like how only one guy out of 300,000,000 can be the President, but there's this wishful thinking that "anybody can be". Well, no, each term is 4 years, so only around 15-20 people in a generation's lifetime (~80 years) get to be the President (and I'm not even counting double terms, or that you have to be > 21 to become the President).