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Re:Age and High-Growth Entrepreneurship by gexla on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @08:32AM (#16800833)
> This makes young people more available to take giant risks with less apprehension (they have less to lose).

Is this a contradiction? How can there be risk if there's nothing to lose?

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Re:Age and High-Growth Entrepreneurship by Infernal on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @11:22AM (#16802006)
Maybe a valid rephrasing would be "This makes young people more able to take actions that older folks with more obligations would consider to be giant risks".
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