>>>Everyone person who has achieved some level of success has a different story to tell, and it's often a complex path. But the idea that going to work for someone else means forfeiting their dreams/futures is faulty logic. Going to work for someone, however difficult, is potentially planting the seeds towards achieving a dream.
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>>The idea that you can work for someone your whole life, and never take the risk or responsibility of working for yourself, and be rewarded for you mediocrity with a life style of the rich and famous would be purely amusing if I didn't see a mob forming.
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>Selective reading. Kevin said "Going to work for someone, however difficult, is potentially planting the seeds towards achieving a dream." IOW, in order to achieve your dream, you might first have to go to work for someone, whether that's to learn the skills you need, or put together the capital you need.


I accept that.

Employment can be a means to end.

But it isn't the American dream.

The American dream is being able to start some kind of entrepreneurial venture without fear of being persecuted by an undemocratic authority.

That's something that meant more to people that were denied it in the old world, and why people are very sensitive to governments impeding it.