upvote
There are endless businesses you can start with little to no capital.
reply
> There are endless businesses you can start with little to no capital.

Well, that's good news. I guess the cause of poverty must simply be laziness.

That's convenient, because it allows me to demonize the lower economic classes without having to address the systemic inequality that rewards capital ownership over labor.

reply
My dad told me I wasn't afraid at all of hard work. I had no problem lying down next to it and going to sleep.

Value is created by some combination of 1) working 2) taking risks.

Entertaining as it is, participating on HackerNews is not a path to making money.

reply
If you count being a Doordash or Uber eats self employed sole proprietorship as "endless business opportunities", then yeah you could be right.
reply
I had a paper route as a boy. It was definitely a business, as I contracted with the newspaper publisher for it. I bought the papers from the publisher, delivered them, and collected money from the customers. How much money I made was a function of how many customers I could sign up for delivery. I made enough to buy a car.

Real estate agents operate in much the same way.

reply
Like what? Will they be profitable?
reply
I started my own software business with no capital.
reply
That's very impressive. How did you write software without a computer?
reply
The school had one. When I wasn't at school, I wrote code in spiral notebooks.

Today you can buy a computer for $25. https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=raspberry+pi

You can pick up a keyboard at the thrift store for about $5, and a monitor for maybe $15.

reply