I'd love to start a business but I rely on my employer to give me health insurance and money to pay for rent and food. While I have a modest savings account compared to the average American, trying to justify it on a risky business venture where it would be literally fail into poverty or get moderate success isn't a chance I want to take.
I'm going to assume many other people share my thought process as well. Hell, I'm willing to bet health insurance is 95% of the reason why most people won't take chances when it comes to entrepreneurship. Compound this with States that didn't expand medicaid and other politicians that are trying to cut back on healthcare by cutting funding to programs like medicaid and the ACA, it's very easy to understand why the rich and the elite have a massive advantage when it comes to starting businesses.
What you are posting goes against the reality many people face, if I could fail into success without paying for rent and healthcare I would but I can't so I won't.
Also calling people "special" for succeeding seems very dehumanizing to other people that aren't "special."
> I'd love to start a business but I rely on my employer to give me health insurance and money to pay for rent and food
I understand if you don't "get it", but this is the reality for most entrepreneurs who start companies. The only difference from them to you is that they start despite the reality, and you don't. If you want to learn more, read up on what AirBnB guys had to do to survive in the early days.
I'm not writing this to offend you, I am just stating the fact, hoping that this would encourage you if you were made to believe otherwise all your life.
This comes from my own experience and many of my friends who are founders. I know of many friends who have lived off of couchsurfing (or lived off of someone else's closet, i'm not making this up) until their company took off. I know this may sound like a fiction but just want to let you know that this world does exist, it's just that the rest of the world (including those journalists and many people on HN with comfy life) don't know and will never understand why they do it.
I'm going to assume many other people share my thought process as well. Hell, I'm willing to bet health insurance is 95% of the reason why most people won't take chances when it comes to entrepreneurship. Compound this with States that didn't expand medicaid and other politicians that are trying to cut back on healthcare by cutting funding to programs like medicaid and the ACA, it's very easy to understand why the rich and the elite have a massive advantage when it comes to starting businesses.
What you are posting goes against the reality many people face, if I could fail into success without paying for rent and healthcare I would but I can't so I won't.
Also calling people "special" for succeeding seems very dehumanizing to other people that aren't "special."