Episode 69 –“There’s No Wrong Answer”
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George Gilder's Spirit of Enterprise:"There is nothing abstract or predictable about them or what they do. Some are scientists, some are artists, some are craftsmen; most are in business. Although they act as individual men and women, they are nearly always driven by familial roles and obligations. They are not always kind or temperate, rarely elegant or tall, only occasionally glib or manifestly leaders of men. By fleeing their homes and families to go to far off lands, many inflict and suffer a trauma of loss--and fight to justify and overcome it. As immigrants, many deliberately seek an orphan's fate, and toil to launch a dynasty. Many lose their fathers, early fill their role, and transcend it gloriously in the world. Ugly, they wreak beauty; rude and ruthless, they redeem the good and true. Mostly outcasts, exiles, mother's boys, rejects, warriors, they learn early the lessons of life, the knowledge of pain, the ecstasy of struggle. "In their own afflicted lives, they discover the hard predicament of all human life, threatened always by the creeping encroachments of jungle and sand. From their knowledge of failure, they forge success. In accepting risk, they achieve security for all. In embracing change, they ensure social and economic stability. "These men and women--who see that civilization is not routine or natural, that it swiftly declines and decays on forty-hour weeks, who knows that to maintain a net profit in the world's accounts is a titanic cause--these men and women are entrepreneurs. "While the entitled children speak of an absence of worthwhile work, the entrepreneurs hold three jobs at one time. While the entitled children ache at the burden of laboring nine to five, the entrepreneurs rise before dawn and work happily from five to nine. While the entitled children complain that success comes from "contacts" with the high and mighty--and talk of the frustrations of "politics"--the entrepreneurs ignore politics and make their contacts with workers and customers. While the entitled children see failure as catastrophe--a reason to resign--the entrepreneur takes it in stride as a spur to new struggle. "While the entitled children think riches come to the gambler or the Scrooge, to the ones blessed with genius or good connections, who exploit labor or political links, who are
