Entrepreneurship is something I believe starts as a just a dream to bring forth that is in you mind. In someway some how while you know what you end goal is and the work needed but the world around you shapes what you truly will be. You can make a multi-million dollar product or just have bright ideas but at the same time if it isn't needed or has already been done then what is the point. Some entrepreneurs have came from poverty and pretty much shook up and set the tone for what being successful looks like such as Oprah Winfrey, Shawn Carter and J.K. Rowling. All three of them had to change their thinking in order to get where they are today cause ideas dont fall out of the sky because if so everyone would be rich. Winfrey changed her mindset then got her own talk show and worth billions, Carter sold drugs then decided to sell CDs and now is one of very few billionaires in hip hop and Rowling got an idea for Harry Potter even though it took 7 years for the first book to come to fruition she saw it through and is now a billionaire. So the proof that poverty is all in the way you think is apparent throughout and no not everyone is gonna be a billionaire but when you decide to sulk in whatever is your current predicament then success is gonna run unless you make what you can do and what you know work for you.
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Great post, Lenue!
This is something that interests me very much! Poverty is primarily based on individual choices rather than outward circumstances. Anything can happen when someone has a vision and the drive to see that dream become a reality in a free market system. It does not mean that they will be billionaires, as you said. However, it does mean that they have the unique opportunity to create more wealth for themselves and others where there was less of it.
The exciting thing to me is that this idea also extends to countries on a larger scale. Impoverished countries can enact policies that hinder people from exercising their creative abilities. In this way, that country keeps its people and itself in poverty. However, when a countries' officials allow their citizens to enter the free market and own private property, the Entrepreneurial spirit of the people can take hold and create new wealth for the nation as a whole. The creative capacity of people is extraordinary, and entire countries benefit from the wealth that humans create. It all comes down to the individual choices of those countries.