All Over but the Counting 2
Werner Herzog’s Bear is feeling Berned out.
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July 1, 2016 at 5:17 pm
In my life I’ve known two people who tried to be “entrepreneurs”, both when they had no other choice. Both failed. Everyone else with a college education that I knew face-to-face had no interest in being “entrepreneurs.” Scientists. Technicians. Teachers. Journalists. Cooks. Auto-body painters. Public defenders. Vo-tech teaching assistants. Government workers. Think tank researchers. No entrepreneurs.
That’s ZERO.
A slight debt forgiveness plan for college grads who want to be “entrepreneurs.” Kool-Aid for the tech industry and wealth, Dem Party you’re-on-your-own boilerplate for everyone else.
Sick of Bernie Sanders. Saying it one hundred times won’t fix it.
July 1, 2016 at 7:01 pm
“Entrepreneur” is not a synonym for self-unemployed, however much it may be so used.
Very few persons are cut out to be entrepreneurs. Generally, those who truly deserve the sobriquet it are those who think of something new–not “re-imagined,” not “re-packaged,” not “enhanced,” but new–and make it happen. Think Cyrus McCormick, Henry Ford, Hewlett and Packard, even for Pete’s sake, Richard Stallman.
Running gypsy cabs or boarding houses with an app is still running gypsy cabs or boarding houses, and someone who comes up with a new twist to an old Wall Street con is not an entrepreneur. He or she is just another Three Card Monte player with a new twist on an old game, a new way of marking the cards, a new way of dealing off the bottom of the deck.
What I find personally troubling is this: I tend to prefer Bernie’s policies to Hillary’s. Nevertheless, as I’ve said before, I try to vote in the real world, and that’s world that Bernie and some of his Bros seem unaware of.
I’ve also said before that what annoys me most among my fellow lefties is the damned purists. You get things done my winning elections, not by making a point and withdrawing from the game wrapped in your virtue cloak.
I think strongly that Mr. Bear’s point in the first two sentences of his last paragraph was spot on. It was, you will pardon the expression, the buried lead.