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I don't know why you are trying to make this a me vs them situation. Both situations are difficult in different ways and they are all real businesses.

"Your biggest challenge is walking into a room full of rich dudes and schmoozing for your pay cheque." - Sounds like you are trolling or alternatively incredibly naive.

"If you start a real business you can expect to take on debt". ... Real business? Come on.

No one in this thread is saying starting a business is easy - ice cream business is debt funded because you have a very definitive range of outcomes. Venture funding is completely different animal - failing to see that limits the value of your comment significantly.

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> I don't know why you are trying to make this a me vs them situation.

In terms of economic disparity it _is_ very much an us vs them situation.

Consider the optics over the last 20+ years. The middle class and their small businesses have been decimated while former VC funded companies hoover up their futures on Wall Street.

The level of risk involved starting an average small business is much closer to home compared with a startup seeking VC funding. The former can literally lose his shirt, the latter has to settle for a high six figure salary somewhere else.

Failing to see that limits the value of your comment significantly.

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This isn't a me vs them. Who is hoovering up the ice cream futures? Different business model, different businesses. Both are difficult. Being a founder of a VC based company is difficult and being a builder of a retail brick and mortar is difficult. It isn't zero sum and both can exist in the same economy trying to make this a Me Vs Them narrative is totally BS.

Making a wedge where there isn't one is disingenuous.