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      614 days ago

      You seem to not understand the difference between an investment and a loan

      I have applied to a few accelerator programs and haven’t gotten a response

      One thing is to get money in exchange for ownership of the company and the other one is to get money that has to be paid back no matter what

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          914 days ago

          It’s different kind of risk when failure means you may not eat or become homeless.

          The rich do not incur that kind of risk when they engage in “entrepreneurial-ship”

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              113 days ago

              They were given bootstraps to pull themselves up by, so everyone else should be able to pull themselves up by their bootstraps too!

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                -113 days ago

                My parents were immigrants themselves and I immigrated again to a different country in my 20s. I arrived with a backpack of clothes, an old laptop and money to pay a shared apartment for a few months.

                But cool story you came up with to justify your prejudice.

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                -113 days ago

                Nope. Incorrect.

                Racism: the systemic oppression of a racial group to the social, economic, and political advantage of another

                When a system oppresses you, no bootstraps to be had.

                That’s just another white supremacy myth meant to make it look like some people just don’t try hard enough.

                https://www.ibramxkendi.com/how-to-be-an-antiracist/

                That will explain it. If you cared to do your own research instead of regurgitating the crap that’s been spoonfed to you your whole life.

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          313 days ago

          Yes I will take marginal amount of risk but no I won’t gamble everything

          Some people get the opportunity to try things risk free, and others need to risk everything so if they fail the consequences are very negative