There is a saying popularised by the founder of this forum that goes something like (really paraphrasing) you wanna start young & naive as a founder since nobod

There is a saying popularised by the founder of this forum that goes something like (really paraphrasing) you wanna start young & naive as a founder since nobody in their right minds would put themselves through this. Paul Graham is laughing so hard that young people work themselves to death for him, and the vast majority ends up with nothing and may be worse off, and it costs PG pocket change. Useful idiots who were naïve and bought the narrative you seem to swallow with such zeal. Those people you keep name dropping are all extremely privileged due to inheritance or connections and so on. And rich people can try multiple times, but poor people have effectively one shot, if they have one at all (due to lack of opportunity / inequality). I will always value a bartender more over any billionaire that hoards money through wage theft, Union busting, tax evasion, and so on. You can’t be ethical and a billionaire at the same time. Because those billions can only be accrued by extreme wage theft.