Do you have what it takes to be a millionaire ?

[mrstickball]

Marks said:
Not if the government has anything to say about it. I've heard countless million/billionaires say that in today's business environment there is no way they could have had the same level of success, the one specific person I can remember saying it is Mark Cuban, but I have certainly heard more say it.

Over-regulation and ridiculous laws that only big box stores can afford to follow are killing small business.

Plus even simple things like parking metres kill business, because it's just another reason to just go to the big mall (where parking is free) instead of the downtown core of the city where the small businesses are...and you then spend your money at a wal-mart or whatever instead of a ma and pa because you don't want the hassle of having to put $3 or whatever in the parking metre or risk a ticket. The government is just complete bullshit.

It doesn't matter at all if there is a huge gap between rich and poor, the poor people in America now are the richest poor people in the history of the world...and that's thanks to capitalism. Socialism DOES NOT create wealth, yeah it shares it evenly...but would you rather have 50% of a million dollar pie, or 5% of a billion dollar pie?

The money is still there, as well as the possibility to become a billioniare. The issue is that its switched significantly in how it can be done. Most of today's billionaires couldn't do it now, thanks to regulations. However, that doesn't mean there aren't other areas that one could get into, and make a fortune. Mark Zuckerberg is a good example of that. Say what you will, he's still worth a lot. There have been a lot of new billionaires to be created in the past 10-15 years in the US, but most have been through the least regulated entity still out there - the internet.

As it stands, the average internet employee makes $100,000/yr. If you're smart, you can easily make that. I have enough ventures that, if I had the seed money, could have a few multi-million dollar ventures. But since I don't, they're still in limbo.