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There are so many people building some little thing. Similarly, for millennia businesspeople have just done something like running an inn. (CEO, Ye Olde Fysh Shoppe.) But somehow now even the little things are culturally also supposed to pretend to be big and to try to get big as possible.

I wish it were more supported and respected for people to build and sustain themselves on such businesses without trying to become world-dominating, VC-backed or publicly-traded, always-growing behemoths.

I guess not that many people can resist a lottery.




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