[amundskm]

I wonder what you consider regular, not because I disagree with you, but because I wonder if the term "moneyed" means something different to you than the author.

I am always fascinated by the normal human bias to assume that a single person's experience is that "average" experience.

To me "moneyed" in terms of being an entrepreneur would mean that if everything failed catastrophically I would have somewhere to go to have a roof over my head and food to eat while I got back on my feet.

My personal bias would lead me to believe that most people have less of a support system then the wonderful people on HN. Most of us have degrees and/or well paying STEM type jobs.

[JohnFen]

> I wonder if the term "moneyed" means something different to you than the author.

I think the author was using the term to mean people who have enough resources available to them (through family or other support networks) that they don't have to worry too much about survival and have relatively easy access to capital.

I think that you and I define it similarly.

But most entrepreneurs I've known over the decades have had neither of those advantages. Although, I'm thinking of "entrepreneur" in its basic sense, not in terms of just starting tech businesses, and not in terms of people starting business with the goal of becoming anything like unicorns.

> My personal bias would lead me to believe that most people have less of a support system then the wonderful people on HN.

I agree completely. The HN crowd is, generally speaking (there are exceptions), a fairly privileged bunch.

[bradlys]

I think you’re taking up semantics at a certain point. Entrepreneurs in our current environment has a much more narrow meaning than auto mechanic who takes over an existing business or starts his own shop after working at another for a decade and building up a client base.