A business owner argues that starting a company doesn't make you morally superior to working for someone else. Both are valid choices. What matters is whether you're following your calling, whatever that is. Ignoring your calling, whether that means not starting a business you're equipped to build or not taking a job that suits you, is what's actually wrong.
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As a business owner, I just want to put it out there. Entrepreneurs are not better or worse than anyone else. Like, there's this sense in kind of entrepreneurial circles that we're all better than everybody else because we make more money and we work harder and whatever. And then if you flip it, you know, you've got the socialist college students who are like, eat the rich, like, you know, millionaires shouldn't exist, that kind of thing. And both groups are completely wrong. Entrepreneurship is a choice. Working a 9 to 5 or working a job for somebody else is a choice. And the moral quality of that choice has nothing to do with how much money you're going to make or how how hard you're going to have to work. But it just has everything to do with what is your calling, what do you put here on earth to do? And that's a very vague question, right? There's a bunch of different ways you could probably live out that calling. But at the end of the day, the only thing that makes you good or bad is if you're running towards that calling or if you're running away from is running away from it would be like if God gave you the tools and the skills and the relationships to be able to go build a business and help people out in a certain way, and you just completely ignore that opportunity. You're afraid to take the risk. I do believe that would be morally wrong. I would be saying to God, no, I know better than you, but some of the best people I've ever met work for somebody else. They contribute ridiculous amounts of value to somebody else's company as an employee there. And that's what they were clearly put on this earth to do. Like for that type of person to go start a business that would be running away from what God put them here to do.
