> There are endless businesses you can start with little to no capital.
replyWell, 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.
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.
replyValue 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.
If you count being a Doordash or Uber eats self employed sole proprietorship as "endless business opportunities", then yeah you could be right.
replyI 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.
replyReal estate agents operate in much the same way.
Like what? Will they be profitable?
replyI started my own software business with no capital.
replyThat's very impressive. How did you write software without a computer?
replyThe school had one. When I wasn't at school, I wrote code in spiral notebooks.
replyToday 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.