Perhaps the oldest joke in the modern world is about how Rockefeller made his fortune. And the joke goes: he bought an apple, polished it and sold it for a higher price polished in that way. Then he did it with two, three, four apples... The apples multiplied, until one day the elder Rockefeller died and left a huge amount of money to the younger one, who polishes the apples.
The entrepreneurs we are dealing with today are actually the Rockefellers in their founding, but with the amendment that they do not have a rich ancestor who, through his will, expresses his emotions towards the younger generations. At some point, if enough money is ever accumulated through real entrepreneurship, entrepreneurs become capitalists. But then economic romance becomes a cruel business, which we will not deal with here. So we'll get back to the topic.
An entrepreneur, then. A money fairy tale that sometimes comes true. One miracle.
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The reason why the signatory of these lines never considered economics to be a complete science is that, in one of its aspects, it refers to the unpredictable, the irrational. If it wasn't like that, there would be a chair for getting rich at the Faculty of Economics, and at master's and doctoral studies, you could learn the fastest and fastest methods of getting to big money. That way, doctors of economic sciences would be the richest people in the world at the same time, and not Elon Musk who - when he adopts a dog - causes such a violent reaction from his fanatical followers that the already meaningless Dogcoin jumps on the cryptocurrency exchanges. This means that there is no recipe or method for economic success, there is something else. There is entrepreneurship, of course, but it also consists of a hundred or so miracles.
Entrepreneurs are people who, above all, need three things. The first luck refers to having the right idea at the right time, the second to being born with the talent to come up with an idea and the energy to "push" it. The third happiness is the greatest, and that is that there are not too many people who would take over your business when it becomes profitable. Or took some part of it. Those who ask nothing from you are called competition, and those who ask a lot from you are called racketeers. To the list of those who also make work difficult, we will add the state, embodied through taxes and contributions, as well as banks, embodied through fine print and large interest and commissions. A successful entrepreneur is, in this sense, the embodiment of a miracle. Before anything else.
And a successful entrepreneur in this environment is a miracle of miracles. He, for example, lives in a post-socialist transitional culture that created the expressions "he managed" and "what does he care", which are verbalized admiration for "easy hunting", in which Rockefeller's money is made. And yes, at the same time, getting that money does not necessarily mean that someone has to die. Or at least none of the close family members.
In such and such an environment, an entrepreneur is a social anomaly who, with his own work and the work of those he employs, reaches what everyone in the environment normally reaches by "getting by". And the entrepreneur doesn't care, which is just unacceptable. Even somewhat worrying.
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The economic phenomenon of entrepreneurship in these areas, and for whom one should be lucky to the level of a miracle, is based on the characteristic of the entrepreneur, which, in itself, represents an even greater miracle. An entrepreneur, namely, undertakes. He undertakes anything, and even something concrete. And that is in the Environment - where few people (read no one) do anything about the disappearance of the state, rights, security, money, health and, consequently, reason, above all - a rarity that has no equal. Entrepreneurs are more than themselves, without even knowing it: they are Entrepreneurs. A species whose very survival is the greatest miracle of all the miracles you've read about today. And to whom, here, we continue to be surprised, and at the same time - with the greatest respect.
Strange, isn't it?
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