“Entrepreneurship worship is just lottery-winner survivorship bias packaged as accessible personal development.”
Agree
- Success stories ignore thousands of silent failures
- Luck masquerades as replicable strategy constantly
- Survivor bias makes gambling look like wisdom
- Privilege enables risk poor people can't take
Disagree
- Patterns exist in successful entrepreneurship journeys
- Nothing ventured means nothing gained ever
- Mindset and determination do predict outcomes somewhat
- Someone has to build new things
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