Some kids also just have 'it'. I'm the 30 year old and my girlfriend's brother is the 15 year old. He's been making money on the schoolground since long before high school. I didn't even start thinking sensibly about money until maybe a year ago.

I think this is it. You hear the stories about the 15 year olds with successful internet businesses because it's pretty rare, but they are really not the norm at all. Most 15 year olds are just mindless consumers of the internet, in the form of Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, etc.

30 years ago the same kid would have worked out a way to have 10 neighborhood newspaper routes and subcontract the actual delivery work to other kids, keeping a commission.

I was a little confused by this one - it feels like it's missing context.

Is the intended audience professional sales-people? In which country?

Are there fifteen year olds out there making $1,000/day selling cheap Chinese merchandise that they ordered through PayPal?

I had a friend who worked in a FedEx call center... They were dealing with teenage resellers all the time. Ordered a container-full of stuff from China, and sold it over time on Ebay.

It seemed to me like it's intended for people running a business who didn't grow up with the internet. Starting a business and making money from it now is much easier than 20/30 years ago.

>> "Are there fifteen year olds out there making $1,000/day selling cheap Chinese merchandise that they ordered through PayPal?"

I think this is just a made up example but I know people who have made decent money buying products from China and selling them on eBay.

So true. It's like everywhere I go, I see teenagers making thousands of dollars online. Because they're "digital natives" who intuitively understand the internet and the market. Makes me so eager to invest, I pull out my wallet every time I see a kid who looks like Mark Zuckerberg.

I'm baffled by these news reports of record high youth unemployment. Everywhere I go, it's just Ritchie Riches tossing money out of their limousines.

Awesome article :)