Troubled Teens Make More Successful Entrepreneurs

Re:Troubled Teens Make More Successful Entrepreneurs by hardwaresofton on Wednesday August 14, 2013 @09:26PM (#6215615)

True, and a non-class-minded non-critical mind might take just that away from it, but I think it's really apparent that they are skirting the entire perspective (of what happens to a probably larger swath of youths) -- they "broke the rules" and got away with it, which enabled them to go on to success.

To take it even farther (because this wouldn't be the internet if I weren't trying to one up everyone including myself):

Stoners have great ideas, some stoners go to jail for petty posession 3 times and do not get much of a chance at life after being incarcerated. I don't think I need to point out which stoners end up going to jail, and which get a slap on the wrist and get to smoke on a college campus later.

I'm really not trying to enrage anyone -- I just think this article was super unbalanced

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Re:Troubled Teens Make More Successful Entrepreneurs by cstavish on Thursday August 15, 2013 @12:47AM (#6216216)

I can't upvote this enough. I know about a lot of behavior that occurs inside and outside of private high schools that goes unchecked or loosely-punished, instead of resulting in police action at most public schools (poor or not). Nothing against the more privileged kids--I don't think a lot of the "troubling" behavior listed in the article is all that problematic (barring shoplifting and assault of course).

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