Very successful startups often turn out in retrospect to have beaten the system in some sense. But that was not the path that led to them. Their founders weren't asking "How can I beat the system?" but rather "What would be cool to build?"
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Interestingly, the naive belief that money is made primarily by beating the system is shared both by people who are eager to do it, and by people whose ideology is based on opposing it. The difference is that many of the former eventually learn they're mistaken.
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Sometimes beating the system is helping people lol
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Sometimes I wonder if Paul's 11yo is really just his excuse to explain simple things to the internet
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It's like 'grampa's wisdom'. Giving advice/teaching a child has many benefits over an adult: - Must be general since child's path is unknown. - Robustness/trueness must be very high since consequences over child's life are great. - Can be honest with a child - less of an ego.
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What do you think is the strongest counterargument to this?
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Yet sometimes the system works against us (or particular groups of people) so kudos to him and to you for the effort to change or constructively challenge established thinking!
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Should tell the
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This is the first mistake of the entrepreneur. Then, gradually learn and start working on meaningful things that help people.
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