>40% of youth in the USA today do not even have that
Puh-leese. Who do you think is buying this? There's no way that figure is anywhere near accurate for people living in "abject poverty".
>Gates, Buffett, and others who claim to be philanthropists work from a point of ignorance, believing that all youth at least have their basic needs covered by this society.
You are aware that the Gates Foundation spends the majority of its resources in Africa, trying to get medicine to the thousands of children that die from ailments that are easily treatable in the US? Almost any child in the US looks massively privileged by comparison. The fact that almost all of our children live to adulthood is a testament to that.
>The idea of taking a couple of months without income to make a startup is laughable- how would I eat and make my house payment?
I don't really know what you're getting at here. Since you were poor growing up, you're too terrified to ever take the risk involved in a startup? Most people are, no matter their economic background. Most startup founders are taking the same kind of risk and don't have years of savings to live off of, but they gather the balls and do it anyway. You're attributing too much of this to your disadvantaged upbringing.
Puh-leese. Who do you think is buying this? There's no way that figure is anywhere near accurate for people living in "abject poverty".
>Gates, Buffett, and others who claim to be philanthropists work from a point of ignorance, believing that all youth at least have their basic needs covered by this society.
You are aware that the Gates Foundation spends the majority of its resources in Africa, trying to get medicine to the thousands of children that die from ailments that are easily treatable in the US? Almost any child in the US looks massively privileged by comparison. The fact that almost all of our children live to adulthood is a testament to that.
>The idea of taking a couple of months without income to make a startup is laughable- how would I eat and make my house payment?
I don't really know what you're getting at here. Since you were poor growing up, you're too terrified to ever take the risk involved in a startup? Most people are, no matter their economic background. Most startup founders are taking the same kind of risk and don't have years of savings to live off of, but they gather the balls and do it anyway. You're attributing too much of this to your disadvantaged upbringing.