FOR AMERICANS, ENTREPRENEURSHIP IS LIKE BREATHING. It is absolutely impossible t

FOR AMERICANS, ENTREPRENEURSHIP IS LIKE BREATHING.

It is absolutely impossible to explain to the rest of the world (particularly Ukrainians) how much better the average american is at business – as a universal general rule – than the minority of those people almost everywhere else.

Sure, context matters, but there is playing context and there is market function. And the more I travel, the more I understand that it’s not just our risk tolerance alone that makes us different – it’s immersion in a culture of entrepreneurship, wherein social activity itself is always conducted under the premise of selling.

We are ignorant and untalented on many levels. But the art of voluntary organization of production in the service of consumers is like breathing – it’s just what we do. We don’t really do anything else – we don’t know how.