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Re:Ask HN: What to do if you hate working for someone else a... by bigmanwalter on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @10:25PM (#15911774)
I don't quite agree with the risk angle because generally people who start their own businesses do so with strong family safety nets or with capital that they amassed in high paying professions. If their business fails, they are usually still ] better off than their employees.
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Re:Ask HN: What to do if you hate working for someone else a... by increment_i on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @09:41PM (#15919557)
I very much doubt this is the case. In 2011, over half a million businesses were started each month in the U.S. in addition to the 23 million small businesses that were already around. Seems unlikely to assume these were all from well to do folks with a strong safety net.

Source: http://censtats.census.gov/cgi-bin/nonemployer/nonsect.pl

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Re:Ask HN: What to do if you hate working for someone else a... by bigmanwalter on Thursday December 14, 2017 @09:06AM (#15922316)
How many poor people have you developed software for personally?
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