Tag yrself, I’m Every Breath a Black Trans Woman Takes.
Are you sure you aren’t
In his latest book, An Entrepreneur’s Manifesto,
the author posits that to sell a product or service to another is a
revolutionary act, “an act that has the power to transform lives,
rebuild families, and forever change communities.”
It certainly feels quite embarrassing to admit that in a certain sense I do kind of agree with that person because it’s politically correct to reject anything that can be pattern-matched into “just pull yourselves up by your bootstraps” but the thing is that I do think poor communities would benefit from their members having better access to ways of making a living for themselves and each other, independently of big faceless minimum-wage corporate monsters; and that while removing state barriers to it (Eric Garner was excactly that kind of a small entrepreneur and look where it got him) is crucial for properly achieving such change, the culture itself could also use some changing to rekindle all the dreams it’s taken a lifetime to destroy. Author seems kind of a “structural issues what structural issues, parents of Flint children can fight lead poisoning by eating a diet which minimizes absorption and should see a holistic doctor to remind them that electromagnetic waves are harmful too [sic]” (uncharitable description omitted) but there is a certain dignity in being less dependent on outsiders and a lot of troubled youth probably have ADHD which can often be constructively channeled into an entrepreneurial attitude in an environment where such a thing is possible and people’s future prospects aren’t systematically ground down.
TL;DR: in my utopia most people would be basically entrepreneurs (or at least a lot closer to it than the standard-issue interchangeable munitions-grade wage workers our current system produces), buying and selling whatever their comparative advantage is (and if the answer to that is “insignificant”, nonetheless enjoying the abundance of a low-scarcity society where people who are unable to make a dignified living for themselves can still trivially access what they need), so I can’t exactly complain if someone is saying things that constitute a part of it even if they seem to be Problematic.
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