He did though. He was successful at reselling furniture and started a coffee business too.
By day 5 he had made enough to buy himself a computer.
After 2weeks, he was able to secure his own office space and after just over one month, Black finally had his own place to rent.
That’s pretty amazing.
The articles say he quit for his dads stage 4 cancer also. Meaning wanting to be there during his dads ordeal. Not every country is like the US where you pay to healthcare either.
I do recognize being born into money gives you a huge advantage. You get the best schooling, best mental health therapy, access to opportunity.
I’m just saying he didn’t fail because you can’t start from scratch, he stopped because he was able to make that choice
It’s not that impressive. Lots of poor people have several “good runs” in a lifetime. Let’s see him pull it off with the tens to hundreds of thousands in debt that most people start life with these days. Friend, you’ve clearly already made up your mind, so I’m not sure that there’s a point in arguing. People who aren’t rich also have health problems, and families, and they don’t get to tap-out just because it got hard. As for it being better in other countries, yeah it is nice to have healthcare. I’m a Canadian, I should know. Unfortunately every culture on earth is infested with American money and American fanboys who are constantly undermining our public systems like rats in the pantry.
I stand by my statement, you can give all the feel-good self-talk in the world, but we suffer from a lot of survivorship bias in the popular myths of opportunity in the modern world. You have a better chance of winning the lottery than being one of the handful of “self-made” rags to riches stories in the world. The vast majority of us will just run ourselves ragged, have nothing to show for it in the end, and die. You can spend your whole life doing everything in your power to bend the odds in your favour, but so is everyone else, and none of us are welcome in the rooms where how the money gets divided are making decisions.
The debt thing is a good point, interest will keep you struggling. He was starting at zero as a homeles person, which is probably an advantage compared to many.
I believe it is better to start from the truth of where we are than to believe in some comfortable myth about opportunity. People who do that get hurt, and then they end up someone else’s problem. Being clear eyed about the problem is the first step in realizing a solution. If the system doesn’t change, 3/4 or better of the population is just a write off. They will not succeed. That’s the world we have built. Can we do better than that? Probably. If we sit down and discuss it like adults instead of throwing temper tantrums every time dogma gets challenged. That doesn’t sound like it’s going to happen any time soon though.
He did though. He was successful at reselling furniture and started a coffee business too.
That’s pretty amazing.
The articles say he quit for his dads stage 4 cancer also. Meaning wanting to be there during his dads ordeal. Not every country is like the US where you pay to healthcare either.
I do recognize being born into money gives you a huge advantage. You get the best schooling, best mental health therapy, access to opportunity.
I’m just saying he didn’t fail because you can’t start from scratch, he stopped because he was able to make that choice
It’s not that impressive. Lots of poor people have several “good runs” in a lifetime. Let’s see him pull it off with the tens to hundreds of thousands in debt that most people start life with these days. Friend, you’ve clearly already made up your mind, so I’m not sure that there’s a point in arguing. People who aren’t rich also have health problems, and families, and they don’t get to tap-out just because it got hard. As for it being better in other countries, yeah it is nice to have healthcare. I’m a Canadian, I should know. Unfortunately every culture on earth is infested with American money and American fanboys who are constantly undermining our public systems like rats in the pantry.
I stand by my statement, you can give all the feel-good self-talk in the world, but we suffer from a lot of survivorship bias in the popular myths of opportunity in the modern world. You have a better chance of winning the lottery than being one of the handful of “self-made” rags to riches stories in the world. The vast majority of us will just run ourselves ragged, have nothing to show for it in the end, and die. You can spend your whole life doing everything in your power to bend the odds in your favour, but so is everyone else, and none of us are welcome in the rooms where how the money gets divided are making decisions.
The debt thing is a good point, interest will keep you struggling. He was starting at zero as a homeles person, which is probably an advantage compared to many.
Also, the last part is quite the pep talk ;)
I believe it is better to start from the truth of where we are than to believe in some comfortable myth about opportunity. People who do that get hurt, and then they end up someone else’s problem. Being clear eyed about the problem is the first step in realizing a solution. If the system doesn’t change, 3/4 or better of the population is just a write off. They will not succeed. That’s the world we have built. Can we do better than that? Probably. If we sit down and discuss it like adults instead of throwing temper tantrums every time dogma gets challenged. That doesn’t sound like it’s going to happen any time soon though.