The old analogy of starting from third base then declaring they hit a homerun. “I took a small million dollar loan and turned it into two million through tax write-offs, government subsidies and contracts. I’m a business genius.”
And it’s not necessarily something as glaring as a large amount of money from the parents. Education, stability, knowing that they will always have a next meal, a neighborhood that isn’t going to encourage them to grow a rap sheet, a professional network. All sorts of things can give people are a leg up, or at least decline to sink them.
The old analogy of starting from third base then declaring they hit a homerun. “I took a small million dollar loan and turned it into two million through tax write-offs, government subsidies and contracts. I’m a business genius.”
And it’s not necessarily something as glaring as a large amount of money from the parents. Education, stability, knowing that they will always have a next meal, a neighborhood that isn’t going to encourage them to grow a rap sheet, a professional network. All sorts of things can give people are a leg up, or at least decline to sink them.