“Go to school Johnny so you can get a good job.” “Mom, I want to own my own business.” “What are you, a retard!? Henry! Come talk to your son, he is trying to deprogram himself!” Why do we figuratively and literally beat the entrepreneur out of our children and each other?
2007-01-04 13:45:44 · 21 answers · asked by Immortal Cordova 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
It's a capitalistic government, and it seems to be working well to my way of thinking. It all reverts back to primitive animalistic themes. The alpha's don't accept the position of beta if they're meant to be alpha, and vice versa. The people who accept working everyday for a living, do so, even if they don't like it, they still do it, and thus, it's their place. The people who do not, find an alternative. They find another way to make a large amount of money, or do other things to get by in life according to the standards that they have set for themselves. Chances are you grew up middle class if you've heard those types of phrases. It's simply the mindset of the normal everyday beta. Entrepreneur families have much different conversations with their children. It usually tends to be the one's who think bigger, that get bigger results. Imagine that. But it's the biggest thinking, that hold the biggest risk, and usually people are far too afraid of losing their security to take any risks. I mean god forbid. Too bad these people don't seem to realize that we're all to die one day. No one gets out of life alive, and thus, there is no risk.
2007-01-04 13:51:57 · answer #1 · answered by Answerer 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Though it goes almost without saying that to run a business involves considerable risk over working for another company, there are several answers to this. The easiest being an easy route out with available state resources, large companies, lacking of applied critical thinking during college, not changing status quo of existing power and wealth structure and so on and so forth.
2007-01-05 15:19:34 · answer #2 · answered by pax veritas 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We figuratively and literally try to beat the entrepreneur out of our children due to our socialization that work is about working for others rather than pursuing meaning for ourselves. Socialization to our society (mass media, authority figures, those with the power to influence) is about coming to believe that the approval of others is tantamount to success ...rather than growing the understanding that believing in ourselves is more important.
2007-01-04 21:57:57 · answer #3 · answered by amythmaker 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Good question. I think some of the answer is that a lot of corporations have gotten so big, like Walmart, that its almost impossible to startup new ones and compete with behemoths like that so people only dream to have a good job with those big corporations already in place.
2007-01-04 21:48:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You know, You have some good questions!!! LOL. Well I do think the question is sort of true! But If you think about it it's really not. Because they are working for others, and they're working for themselves at the same time. Your working for yourself for a living,food,water,clothes,housing, etc. I think 50/50 on both! you know?
2007-01-05 12:26:03 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
For the parents that really do care about their children, it's because they want their child to be able to face reality and realize that only a very, very small percentage of people "make it big", and to prepare for the real world, rather than chase a "fantasy".
For the parents that really don't care about their children, it might be because they don't want to see their child achieve the dreams that they once had. :( It would make them jealous.
2007-01-04 21:57:46 · answer #6 · answered by Drinking from a broken glass.... 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
well...I think we accommodate very easy to the way thing's are, we don't want to change or to struggle for something, we get scared and we just do what's safer
that feeling or idea is that we transfer to other, in this case our children, and Parent's always try to protect their children from failure, that's a normal thing for a human being to do.
2007-01-04 22:20:23 · answer #7 · answered by klemba 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because, parents wanttheir children to take the easy route. they dont want tohave to worry about theirchildren not being taken care of.
dont get me wrong, i totally see from where youre coming from and agree.
2007-01-04 21:48:41 · answer #8 · answered by Meeowf 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A mindless worker is a happy worker. Now shut up, and do your Job.
2007-01-04 22:12:46 · answer #9 · answered by Old guy 124 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
as with anything, you start on the bottom and work your way up. Nobody be capitalism out of me, I was taught how to work my way up vs. complaining that i'm a victim of corporate america.
2007-01-04 21:54:44 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋