The President inserted into the political dialogue the idea that the successful entrepreneur did not build up her business on her own, but owes her success to the government and society, the matrix of privilege bestowing upon her all that she has become and achieved. There is some minor truth to this distorted point of view.
Sadly, the distortion is to de-legitimatize and underrate the achievement of the clever, striving individual worker or businesswoman.
The actual, greater truth is that succeeding is mostly an individual feat, acquired and gained usually in spite of the restricting, disapproving members of the community. Typically, the collective holds back the enterprising individual, more than encouraging or building her up.
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