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by chronic729 3030 days ago
> Let's not ignore the fact that Sam Walton had enough cash to buy a department store at the age of 27. That helps too.

So poor people should never try to be an entrepreneur because the world is rigged against them? Well that surely will help reduce the wealth inequality.

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Everyone should try, but with the understanding that the world is definitely rigged against them.
OP didn't suggest that though. Many people have a black-and-white ideal in which entrepreneurship means making the next Facebook or Amazon and end up aiming too high for their own means.