because we now live in a society where everything is overregulated and you practically can't do anything ambitious, even on a small scale, without paying for some license or other forced bullshit.  at one point a few years ago i had $50k in the bank and started looking into what kind of businesses i could try start for $10k-$20k. due to licenses and regulations, almost every idea i explored was impossible or would've required me to overleverage myself, not due to the "actual" startup costs, but licenses and regulations. even my simplest/least expensive idea which was to rent a space to put on a haunted house at halloween time proved impossible due to regulations. i'm not saying it's totally impossible to become a self made man these days or that there aren't any types of businesses that someone with the right skill set can start, but the avenues are ever shrinking. a lot of us don't want to dedicate our lives to the jews either, so we're just taking our balls and going home.
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