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deaf_fish ,

Upvoating for comedy not accuracy.

It’s unlikely to create a successful business late in life, but not impossible. Best of luck to all who are giving it a shot!

Empricorn ,

My internal monologue: “I’m not giving up, I can do this all day!”

“Yeah, I know! I know…”

RootBeerGuy ,
@RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Think outside of the box, make pear.

BenadrylChunderHatch ,

Megahard Pear.

DriftinGrifter ,

In all honesty the big market is basically full but nicht products still allow for small company creation

walthervonstolzing ,
@walthervonstolzing@lemmy.ml avatar

Better cite Wozniak as the one who ‘made’ Apple; but anyway.

veni_vedi_veni ,

Sadly, the age of garage tech startups is over, big tech made sure of that. They now just buy tech start ups with no intention of leveraging their innovations, but rather to maintain the status quo. Late stage capitalism…

The_Picard_Maneuver OP ,
@The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website avatar

I know it’s not a business, but the whole fediverse gives “garage startup” vibes, and it’s refreshing.

phx ,

Garage tech startups where the garage belongs to your already upper-income-class parents

Sorgan71 ,

no such thing as big tech. Just tech companies

azvasKvklenko ,

That’s correct, thanks

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Silly. I gave up way before I was in my 20s.

Hovenko ,
@Hovenko@iusearchlinux.fyi avatar

Don’t forget to mention that you were born 50 years too late on wrong part of the globe to wrong parents. Game was rigged from the start.

RIP_Cheems ,
@RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world avatar

Not for me.

Viking_Hippie ,

No way! At 40, I’m the perfect age to make TWO Microsofts! Or one Megahard!

Kolanaki ,
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

I can make Orange. All we do is take other people’s ideas, make them look a little nicer and charge 1000% more.

nolight ,

I’ve never seen capitalism explained better than this.

HerbalGamer ,
@HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works avatar

like the telephone company?

Wogi ,

Or conquer all of Asia and kill enough people, and cause enough children to be a significant part of the gene pool for thousands of years

Viking_Hippie ,

Oppan Ghenghis style!

MNByChoice ,

Starting with a small loan of $10 million, at 8% return, invested for 60 years, is all that is needed to be a billionaire.

Get rich parents that will loan their newborn $10 million.

CurlyMoustache ,
@CurlyMoustache@lemmy.world avatar

Here in Norway, a few years back, almost every news outlet had “guides” on how to buy your first apartment/house (buying a home became an integrated part of our economy after the war).

It was in the style of “if I can do it, anyone can”-interview with someone that just recently had bought their first home. The articles started pretty tame with clever tips where the boy/girl made coffee/lunch at home and saved a miniscule amount of money. Sure. Nice tips on how to save money.

Then it usually escalated to get your parents to buy an apartment, rent it out and keep all the rent income while living for free at home. After a while, sell the apartment and buy a new one.

Pretty fucking horrifying that journalists thought: “yes, this is a good article to print. It will help people!”

jettrscga ,

That reminds me of this savings plan from 10 year ago that McDonalds and Visa created to show people how you can live on ~$20k per year:

https://blogs-images.forbes.com/laurashin/files/2014/07/screen-shot-2013-07-18-at-4-57-59-pm.png

They forgot to include food, among other wild inaccuracies. I love it when corporations give helpful savings tips.

Source

BigDiction ,

$20 month health insurance! They were really banking on Obamacare

SnuggleSnail ,

My health insurance costs 842€ a month. I pay half of it, the other half my employer. So I am quite impressed with the $20 from the estimation.

But why do two jobs? Won’t people do a better job concentrating on one thing and getting $2000 for that, instead of gaining experience in two different areas at the same time?

Rentlar ,

But why do two jobs? Won’t people do a better job concentrating on one thing and getting $2000 for that, instead of gaining experience in two different areas at the same time?

It’s because McDonald’s was trying to make an excuse that paying people US Federal Minimum wage (7.25$/hr since 2009, it’s still that in 2023) is enough to live on, and utterly failed, even while holding both a 40h a week and 30h a week min wage job. I guess they expect fast food employees to use to make their own fast food while they’re there as their food budget.

It was a case in point in 2013, rent and all expenses are way up since then. People aren’t going to make a living or have any savings at all, probably accruing more debt even with 2 jobs and less than the minimum of expenses.

CurlyMoustache ,
@CurlyMoustache@lemmy.world avatar

Two jobs!?

Assman ,
@Assman@sh.itjust.works avatar

That’s right, it’s not too late to get adopted by an oligarch

nifty ,
@nifty@lemmy.world avatar

I like to suffer tho

Poggervania ,
@Poggervania@kbin.social avatar

Steve Jobs was 21 when he got Mike Markkula to invest a ton of money into incorporating Apple.

Bill Gates was 20 when he realized he came from a rich family thanks to his dad being a good lawyer and his mom was on a ton of Executice Boards.

7u5k3n ,

Ibm.

That’s how he got a hold of dos.

Rhaedas ,
@Rhaedas@kbin.social avatar

IBM is how he got into the PC infrastructure via licensing. He saw what the execs didn't, that anyone could build hardware but what ran on it controlled the world. And I don't know how true it is, but my understanding is that Gates was so shrewd he bet on getting that agreement before he even had the software in hand. Which if true says even more about the IBM execs who agreed to something sight unseen.

grue ,

And I don’t know how true it is, but my understanding is that Gates was so shrewd he bet on getting that agreement before he even had the software in hand.

That’s not being “shrewd;” that’s just not giving a fuck about screwing over other people if your bet doesn’t work out.

Valmond ,

Probably was the parents pushing him(and helping him ofc), but where is the “star child” history in that eh?

takeda ,

Also most of those “self made” billionaires already grew up in wealthy families.

Viking_Hippie ,

Yeah, the youngest ever (at the time, at least) “self made” billionaire was a fucking Kardashian!

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