| I hate this kind of shit. The plural of anecdote is not "data". The vast majority of people who drop out of college (or let their grades slip) to launch startups end up in failure, financial hardship, and misery. You should not plan your life based on 5-sigma outliers. The Internet is full of pro-startup propaganda and terrible advice. Move fast and ruin your life. It's bullshit. No one is saying, "build your career, work hard and learn a lot, become really good at things, and get rich slowly." (In part, that's because venture capitalists hate the idea of a 15-50% per year growth company.) Instead, it's the "you could be a winner!" Tappy Tibbons nonsense. Normally, this would just be a new generation of the same damn fraud that has always existed. However, given the perverted culture of age discrimination (chickenhawking) in the contemporary Valley it has become apparent that a whole culture has fallen for this "get rich quick, or you're a loser" nonsense and the massive wad of impractical, life-wrecking advice that comes with it. |
Its not data or a trend, its just a thank you.