{"id":3029,"date":"2019-09-22T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-22T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/?p=3029"},"modified":"2019-12-10T16:50:19","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T16:50:19","slug":"what-if-we-got-rid-of-all-entrepreneurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/what-if-we-got-rid-of-all-entrepreneurs\/","title":{"rendered":"What If We Got Rid Of All Entrepreneurs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"speakable-paragraph\">Many&nbsp;successful&nbsp;entrepreneurs&nbsp;of the moment&nbsp;inspire fear and anger. The litany of their sins is long:&nbsp;They&nbsp;sell our personal&nbsp;information to people who&nbsp;use it&nbsp;to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/dereklidow\/2019\/08\/11\/we-must-curtail-online-manipulation-before-its-too-late-here-are-four-things-we-can-do\/#38c46dad7e00\" target=\"_self\" data-ga-track=\"InternalLink:https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/dereklidow\/2019\/08\/11\/we-must-curtail-online-manipulation-before-its-too-late-here-are-four-things-we-can-do\/#38c46dad7e00\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">manipulate us<\/a>.&nbsp;They create dangerous products, like&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/dereklidow\/2018\/12\/10\/how-we-can-confront-the-good-versus-evil-at-the-heart-of-entrepreneurship\/#7d15fcae6573\" target=\"_self\" data-ga-track=\"InternalLink:https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/dereklidow\/2018\/12\/10\/how-we-can-confront-the-good-versus-evil-at-the-heart-of-entrepreneurship\/#7d15fcae6573\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">e-cigarettes<\/a>, and market them to minors.&nbsp;They&nbsp;devastate&nbsp;worthy&nbsp;industries, such as&nbsp;the newspaper business&nbsp;and independent book selling,&nbsp;and invent&nbsp;repugnant&nbsp;industries,&nbsp;such as&nbsp;internet porn.&nbsp;And as&nbsp;ten thousand years&nbsp;of entrepreneurial&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/dereklidow\/2019\/09\/08\/ten-thousand-years-of-history-show-that-expecting-big-tech-to-self-regulate-is-a-fantasy\/#5d1b1bdb10ba\" target=\"_self\" data-ga-track=\"InternalLink:https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/dereklidow\/2019\/09\/08\/ten-thousand-years-of-history-show-that-expecting-big-tech-to-self-regulate-is-a-fantasy\/#5d1b1bdb10ba\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">history shows<\/a>, they&nbsp;are incapable of regulating&nbsp;themselves.&nbsp;But try this thought experiment:&nbsp;what&nbsp;would the&nbsp;world&nbsp;be like if entrepreneurs had never existed?<\/p>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/dereklidow\/2019\/09\/22\/what-if-we-got-rid-of-all-entrepreneurs\/#769dcd0646ce\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many&nbsp;successful&nbsp;entrepreneurs&nbsp;of the moment&nbsp;inspire fear and anger. The litany of their sins is long:&nbsp;They&nbsp;sell our personal&nbsp;information to people who&nbsp;use it&nbsp;to&nbsp;manipulate us.&nbsp;They create dangerous products, like&nbsp;e-cigarettes, and market them to minors.&nbsp;They&nbsp;devastate&nbsp;worthy&nbsp;industries, such as&nbsp;the newspaper business&nbsp;and independent book selling,&nbsp;and invent&nbsp;repugnant&nbsp;industries,&nbsp;such as&nbsp;internet porn.&nbsp;And as&nbsp;ten thousand years&nbsp;of entrepreneurial&nbsp;history shows, they&nbsp;are incapable of regulating&nbsp;themselves.&nbsp;But try this thought experiment:&nbsp;what&nbsp;would the&nbsp;world&nbsp;be like if&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3029"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}