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People that have loans they need to pay back and no rich parents to pay them for you don't go out and start companies.

Comments like this may be well-intended but do not provide advice which is useful for people without certain forms of economic privilege and may be perceived as insulting to people without certain forms of economic privilege who did, indeed, go out and start companies.



>may be perceived as insulting to people without certain forms of economic privilege who did, indeed, go out and start companies.

Are you one of these people?

If not, you shouldn't be speaking for them.


Yes.


Then I assume you were offended and apologize for causing you offense.


I don't think that this should be insulting to someone who came from the lower/middle class and started a company. They are the exception not the rule. It just means that what they did is particularly impressive.




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