Is the problem with the poor really that they’re afraid to start a business?

Some people always say that people earning around four or five thousand per month aren’t poor because they don’t work hard—but because they don’t dare to start a business.
But reality isn’t that simple.
The people delivering takeout, scraping on putty, welding, and sweeping streets—most of them don’t lack dreams; they just can’t afford to fail.
If a boss’s startup fails, they can go back home and inherit the family business.
For ordinary people, if their business fails, it may mean the rent can’t be paid on time, the kids have to stop going to school, and their parents can’t get the medicine they need.
Entrepreneurship really can change your fate, but the survivors tell stories—while the ones who fail don’t even have a microphone.
Of course, relying on a wage of four or five thousand also makes it hard to accomplish all the tasks of buying a home, starting a family, and planning for retirement.
So the issue has never been whether to start a business or go work for someone else.
It’s that you shouldn’t treat any one kind of identity as your only way out.
Working a job isn’t failure, and starting a business isn’t redemption.
The real danger is believing that stability is forever, and treating fantasies as ability.
Many people aren’t defeated by poverty.
They’re defeated by listening to too many stories about “defying the heavens and changing your fate,” and in the end forgetting how many cards they actually hold in their own hands.