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Andrew Yang
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July 7 - July 14, 2020
What’s interesting is that many of the people I meet who are young, highly educated, and from good families are among the most risk-averse.
We need smart and hardworking people to build businesses around the country as much as or more than we need them to do anything else. We need more intelligent risk takers and value creators who see their communities reflected in the work they do. We need to restore the culture of achievement to include value creation, risk and reward, and the common good so that more of our top people are in position to create new enterprises and opportunities.
Which would you rather have, better arms dealers or better fighters? And which should our young people want to be? Personally, I always dreamed about going into the woods and fighting the dragon, not selling the guy a sword.
Cities tend to produce startups that are either solving local institutions’ problems or building on existing strengths.
I’d imagined today’s twenty-two-year-olds to be kind of like me circa 1997, but they’re wired differently, capable of things I could never do.
For the past twenty-one years I’ve struggled to find meaning in life, and it wasn’t until I truly began considering career paths that I came to the realization that life is not about making money. The Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity, wisely responded, “Man, because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies
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This financial realm known as trading is a zero-sum game where for every dollar you make, someone else loses a dollar, and I know I’m not destined to become such an obvious parasite on society.
