I'm not playing the victim. To be transparent I grew up in the class of children who are empowered and have the fiscal/social stability and network to participate in entrepreneurship...which I did. I went to a fancy ass private high school with one of the reddit cofounders, a school that (by nature largely of the socioeconomic status of the students' parents) has produced a number of other founders as well. I've founded/co-founded multiple startups and the most notable quantity of my entrepreneurial friends is that they have a fall back option (not plan...option). That freedom has heavily influenced how I make choices throughout my career in ways that leveraged a safety net that I had and others didn't.
Again, I'm not the victim here I'm the victor...but that doesn't preclude me from calling a bad argument a bad argument. There is actual research on this. Expert entrepreneurs evaluate risk based on what would happen in the worst case scenario (the downside risk) as opposed to the potential profit. You flipped the interpretation of the evidence on its head and tried to make poor people feel stupid.
You see, this is the problem. You haven't been in the shoes of the people you think you're advocating for, and I get the good intention, but unless you really have been in that position, you really don't understand their lives.
I and many other entrepreneurs I know did not grow up with as blessed situation as you have, and yet I think it's fine. Sure it would have been better if the situation was better, but in the end we all did fine because we tried hard despite the fact. When I see people with victim mindset who just keep saying "Entrepreneurship is only for rich people and that's why I don't do it, the world is not fair", in my eyes they are just losers, because I know from my own experience and countless others that that's not true.
To recap, I know of many people from bad situations succeeding despite their bad background just because they worked their asses off, both personally and historically.
And you are saying people like us should just give up and live a loser's life thinking it's only rich people who get richer?
