Entry-level/couch-potato workers will find it harder to get simple jobs; but entrepreneurial opportunity is unlimited.

Entry-level/couch-potato workers will find it harder to get simple jobs; but entrepreneurial opportunity is unlimited. | now I do think it's a problem if you are a couch potato and you were just, you know, I just need a job. I'm going to get up and do something simple. That seems like it's going to get harder. If you're a brand new college graduate coming coming out, you've got a brilliant technical idea and you want to put $20 million behind it. Uh that's doable today.

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now I do think it's a problem if you are a couch potato and you were just, you know, I just need a job. I'm going to get up and do something simple. That seems like it's going to get harder. If you're a brand new college graduate coming coming out, you've got a brilliant technical idea and you want to put $20 million behind it. Uh that's doable today.

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