We're speaking in the context of getting steady employment vs taking a very unlikely to succeed moonshot. Plenty of extremely successful people, including plen

We're speaking in the context of getting steady employment vs taking a very unlikely to succeed moonshot. Plenty of extremely successful people, including plenty of billionaires, started out with a paycheck with an employer, often for many many years. Plenty more live very comfortable lives. Your framing as the former is somehow "lacking ambition" is just wrong.