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Be careful saying such things. Even if you’re correct in 99.99% of cases, you “shouldn’t say such things in the entrepreneur sub”.
Don’t you know? Nowadays every 19 year old with $0 in their bank account should be forgoing college and careers to start companies instead. Who cares if you have 0 experience, $0 in a 401k, $0 to put towards private market healthcare, and your housing is your mom’s spare room?
Who cares if it takes the average company ~3 to start generating $1 of profit? Who cares if you need $50k to live above the poverty line while you get the company off the ground? Who cares if your “professional network” consists of a few kids in college who smoke drugs on a couch and skip class everyday?
Who cares if when the business fails (incredibly high odds it will) your resume will be a blank sheet of paper and you’ll get stuck flipping burgers in the back of a McDonalds?
Who cares if you have $0 in W2 income, excluding you from most loans, apartment leases, etc.?
Who cares if you have no degree and zero experience in the industry your “company” is in?
Who cares if you’ll be competing against people many of which have 30+ years of experience running companies and unlimited capital to tap?
And before you say “just get a degree and wait until you’ve worked a few years to gain experience and build your network” - don’t you know that’s not an option anymore?
Don’t you know Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of college and became a billionaire? Who cares if his dad gave him the choice between a free, funded, pre-built business or a free Harvard degree?
Mark Zuckerberg did it so therefore every young person in America should do the same thing he did. Who cares that 99.999% of them will fail? In which case they can become homeless, file for bankruptcy, eat at the Food Bank, and ruin their credit or get an entry level Job anyways to desperately pay off the financial destruction!