It can be assumed that the United States of America is based off of the Big Business Boom. There are several creators of major social networking websites and companies that didn't even receive a high school diploma. These great success stories all trace back to these people that we call entrepraneurs. When it comes to the topic of a person creating their own business, supporters of this person could get a bit touchy. This could be because of the amount of loans given to that person, the lack of ambition it may demonstrate in the entrepreneur's life, and even the slight fact that this young man or woman is running the risk of failure, which no one wants to see.
With an economy in shambles, one can wonder how these high school and college dropouts (such as Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Paul Allen, and even more) have succeeded and are also making millions of dollars each year. Does it make sense that these business CEOs are doing so well when your average Joe goes through high school, getting a 4.0 GPA, gets into an amazing college, earns a $150,000 degree and can't even find a job that pays for a good living, let alone paying back loans? The very word loans is associated with a far uglier plural noun: debts. Debts are most responsible for the lack of entrepraneurs with the same high success rate as the aforementioned computer geniuses. No one wants to take the chance of having a business that costs more to upkeep than the gain in profits.
As mentioned before, the people we least expect to have dropped out from either high school or college. And is it for the better or the worse? As Mark Ellsburg from the New York Times puts it, "America has a shortage of job creators. And the people who create jobs aren’t traditional professionals, but start-up entrepreneurs." So, in a sense, he is right. Why shape and mold these teenagers into someone who is jobless and living off of spaghettios a few weeks after graduation? Give these kids the option to be their own person. Don't teach them that they absolutely have to work for someone else. The United States and the world in general have this twisted view that if you don't graduate from high school and/or college, you're a lazy fart. Why is this? It is just the way we are brainwashed from the moment we step onto that bus in kindergarten. Don't fail. You'll never get into a good college.
In the Merriam Webster dictionary, failure is described as a lack of success. But in this twisted world, a lack of success could mean anything. Your parents may say that failure is bad grades on your report card. Others may say that not getting paycheck with the same amount on it every week is failure as well. Entrepreneurs get no fixed income. None. So what? Work a little harder, because entrepreneurs don't let everything get handed to them on a silver platter. Business CEOs have had to strive to make a difference, not just take things as they come. If you ask me, I'd rather be a hardworking citizen with awesome job security in my own business than to be another person complaining about their boss on a lousy day at work.
