Like what? Will they be profitable?

I started my own software business with no capital.

That's very impressive. How did you write software without a computer?

The school had one. When I wasn't at school, I wrote code in spiral notebooks.

Today you can buy a computer for $25. https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=raspberry+pi

You can pick up a keyboard at the thrift store for about $5, and a monitor for maybe $15.

Okay so you admit that you did in fact have capital and you were lying before?

Did you ever compensate the school for their involuntary loan of that computer or are you now admitting that you are a thief?

> There are endless businesses you can start with little to no capital.

Well, that's good news. I guess the cause of poverty must simply be laziness.

That's convenient, because it allows me to demonize the lower economic classes without having to address the systemic inequality that rewards capital ownership over labor.

My dad told me I wasn't afraid at all of hard work. I had no problem lying down next to it and going to sleep.

Value is created by some combination of 1) working 2) taking risks.

Entertaining as it is, participating on HackerNews is not a path to making money.

I honestly cannot fathom the relevance of your comment. Can you please explain how any of that relates to a discussion of the value of capitalism?

If you count being a Doordash or Uber eats self employed sole proprietorship as "endless business opportunities", then yeah you could be right.

I had a paper route as a boy. It was definitely a business, as I contracted with the newspaper publisher for it. I bought the papers from the publisher, delivered them, and collected money from the customers. How much money I made was a function of how many customers I could sign up for delivery. I made enough to buy a car.

Real estate agents operate in much the same way.

Have we already gotten to the part of the conversation where you just admit that your entire understanding of economics is based on a handful of personal anecdotes?