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jamesfinlaysontoday at 3:08 AM2 repliesview on HN

I know someone who is an accountant for very wealthy people and quite a few seem to have useless children whose failing businesses they bankroll.


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GJimtoday at 9:38 AM

> whose failing businesses they bankroll

Don't confuse a hobby business with a failing business.

Plenty of people with independent means run loss making businesses for fun and/or support wives/children doing just that.

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kijintoday at 5:24 AM

Startups are like sports cars nowadays. People think it makes you look cool if you own one.

It doesn't matter if it costs a lot of money to maintain. Yachts and sports cars do the same. That's actually like the whole point of it, after all.