Comment on Billionaires shouldn't exist
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 2 days agoJust get a better paying job is what you are saying? Or start a company, but remember that it needs to be a successful company?
Comment on Billionaires shouldn't exist
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 2 days agoJust get a better paying job is what you are saying? Or start a company, but remember that it needs to be a successful company?
Draupnir@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If someone wants to break the cycle and have a stab at a better life, then I do believe that yes, business and hard as hell work to make it happen is the cost. Most people would rather sit in comfort and point blame at some external figure for their misfortunes, yet they are in no better of a place in the end.
A better paying job can help certainly. And it can ease the pressure of being a lesser earner if treated responsibly. But in the end, working a job is still working for someone else and taking all your time to do so. Someone could run a business in a way that they create a full-time job for themselves and still end up here.
5too@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Great! Most new businesses fail, which makes sense given the people starting them are new at this. Billionaires often have had several failed attempts. The difference is, they have room to fail and try again.
How do we give others that chance, if not by keeping billionaires from hoovering up all the resources?
Draupnir@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Sounds like a good excuse to stop yourself from starting and continue pointing fingers at someone else. Everybody fails at everything at some point, but the differentiating factor is whether you’re going to pick yourself up and keep going with the new information you’ve gotten. It doesn’t cost anything to hedge against risk and make a plan for potential failure, and you certainly don’t need to be a billionaire to do it.
5too@lemmy.world 1 day ago
They do have something special that the rest of us don’t have. They have money.
That’s what I mean when I say they have room to try again. They don’t go broke when their business fails, so they can try more than once. Most of us don’t have the time or resources to have another go without some serious recovery time.