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Age and High-Growth Entrepreneurship
> This makes young people more available to take giant risks with less apprehension (they have less to lose).
Is this a contradiction? How can there be risk if there's nothing to lose?
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Maybe a valid rephrasing would be "This makes young people more able to take actions that older folks with more obligations would consider to be giant risks".
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Is this a contradiction? How can there be risk if there's nothing to lose?