With the hindsight of experience, the remnants of my 18-year old energy go “woah, that’s cool!” at plenty of engineering feats… and my decades-older second brain goes “well d’oh, I could’ve just learned a trade to work on that!”
replyI think the last one was seeing a skilled electronics repairman do surgery on a CT machine controller.
Depends if you’re 17 with rich parents or not.
replyThis only changes whether you are naive enough to believe “honest” business means anything in today’s age. If anything, I worry being honest is holding back smart people who try to compete in a rigged game.
replyThere's two ways to read my comment. I believe you read it along the lines of "you need to be rich to start a business".
replyWhat I meant was that if you're rich you don't need any trade school or to run a business, you can just sit on your ass living off interest from capital. Only "poor" people need to work for a living.
Honesty is a big problem today. I'd rather live with myself, knowing I didn't screw anyone...
reply> you are naive enough to believe “honest” business means anything in today’s age
replyMight be that these people are from outside the US as well, where things like "honest business" is very much possible today, probably most businesses I interact with AFK on a daily business are "honest businesses".