Reply #5: I am so glad it worked out for him. And I'm sure it can work for some others, too.

[Berry Cool]

The problem? Not everyone is meant to go into business for themselves. Not everyone has the gift of being able to schmooze.

There are so many people in this world who want nothing more in life than to use the ability they already have to work for someone else and make a decent living in return, and get their other needs like health care paid for. Those people deserve to be able to make it in this country. They shouldn't all have to start their own small businesses with zero capital and make them thrive in order to have a decent life.

So many times we have heard that the solution to people's economic problems is this or that or the other thing: "more training," "more education," "start your own business," etc. But the solution is not going to be the same for everyone. And there are people who HAVE acquired more training or more education or started their own businesses who got smacked in the face.

It's true that it does no good to sit around waiting for this corrupt, corporate-run country to change things so you can survive; if you do you're going to perish. You need to take some kind of action as an individual that you think will make a difference in your fate. But in the long run, the solutions to our economic misery are not going to be found in our individual actions, but our collective ones, to throw the yoke of Corporation As King off our necks.