• Bronstein_Tardigrade
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    3 years ago

    The old analogy of starting from third base then declaring they hit a homerun. “I took a small million dollar loan and turned it into two million through tax write-offs, government subsidies and contracts. I’m a business genius.”

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      And it’s not necessarily something as glaring as a large amount of money from the parents. Education, stability, knowing that they will always have a next meal, a neighborhood that isn’t going to encourage them to grow a rap sheet, a professional network. All sorts of things can give people are a leg up, or at least decline to sink them.