[wonderwonder]

Guy lost me a couple sentences in, right about here: "I’ve only been up and around for about 4 years, a happy ignorant high school teenager before that. I have yet experienced more professional hardship in these four years than most people do in all of their lives."

I realize the guy is young and hope he is just using hyperbole and does not honestly believe what he is saying.

I'm willing to bet the guys that queue outside of places like Lowes and Home Depot hoping to just get some day labor to feed their families experience quite a bit of hardship. Probably same for the guys that sneak over the border to get jobs working on farms to send money back to their families, or the person that works for a company for 20 years and is laid off. The author willingly dropped out of college to start a business.

I never really understood professional stress until I got to the point where I realized my kids eating depended on me bringing home an income. Whenever I get stressed about work it helps to realize that the problem is probably solvable and that I have it no where near as bad as these guys doing back breaking physical labor to do the same thing I am trying to do, feed people they care about.

I wish the author nothing but success but he is being a tad dramatic.

[clairity]

or the billion-ish people around the world living with food insecurity, many in india. privilege tends to be blind, but yes, he seems to be just talking to his peers and not the whole world.

i applaud the guy for his entrepreneurship, especially from his roots in small-town india.

[naeemtee]

He's from India. Statistically speaking, he might be right, although judging by the fact he dropped out of school he's probably in the upper echelons of society.

[wonderwonder]

I would say being from India hurts his argument. He has started at least one, perhaps two successful businesses that took off in the first few months. The median income in India is $616. I think professionally he is doing ok.