A truly entrepreneurial economy optimised to allow those with limited social and economic capital the opportunity to start and run successful businesses would look very different. It might even make articles like this one unnecessary.
Amber envisions a comfortable future that includes a family, a modern-yet-rustic house and a good job, maybe as a business owner
Hmmmm. Not sure that much can be done, or should be done, to help lazy unmotivated people with unrealistic expectations.
It's easy to sit there and say you'd like to have more money.
And I guess that's what I like about it.
It's easy.
Just sitting there, rocking back and forth, wanting that money.
It's a story so common as to be a trope in media for the school dropout to end up going on to great things once they find an avenue for their enthusiasm, and the article hints that Amber may be finding something like that in her culinary work.
How, then, is this meaningfully different from typically well-recieved stories about teenagers who don't get on with school but are enthusiastic engineers or programmers? The specific path is different, but the story is the same. Why should one be interpreted as "potentially the next Bill Gates" and the other as "lazy unmotivated"?
I hate merge conflicts and code reviews but I do them.
The ability to delay gratification is a core element of success. Period.
I've never seen a school start earlier than 8:15am.
???
That's less than 4 hours before noon....
Most americans[1] are awake by 6:30am. If you sleep past 7:30am you are in the last 1 out of 6.
Are we just assuming students don't have commute times here? That isn't true for a _lot_ of people.
Of course high school students have incomplete and partly unrealistic wishes and expectations. There's so much to learn still -- it really requires some time to fully grasp how society functions.
Furthermore, it's deeply unfair to label someone as lazy if they don't fit the normal school mold. People learn differently, and thrive in different jobs and skills. If you read the article in full, you'll notice she now has an after-school job which she loves. That sounds like a great start to me.
If people can't afford basic physical needs, then that's going to create jobs only if these people somehow get extra resources for that. The current job trends won't do that, they're likely going to make it worse for those people that can't afford basic needs - either it's going to be solved by some major politic-economic intervention redistributing resources (UBI being one of multiple possibilities) or it's not going to happen and those needs will stay unmet.