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I don't think there's anything wrong or unethical with encouraging people to become entrepreneurs. Younger people are going to be more in tune with what new needs the next generation are going to have.

It is, however, unethical and wrong to encourage people to sacrifice everything when your society has zero safety nets for those that fail. And realistically, most entrepreneurs are going to fail. That's just factual reality. We all learn from our failures and become better engineers or better people from them, but when you tie it all to a hustle or a startup you run the risk of falling into a quite literally unrecoverable trap.

That's assuming you even have the capital to run your own company in the first place. I've been in the software business for a while now and I have nowhere near the amount needed to bootstrap a company plus support myself and my family.



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