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Why Kids Today Don't Know How to Hustle
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Growing up in Romania meant working for everything you wanted. Alex Edelman on the difference between his childhood and a comfortable American one. #BuildingABusiness #Entrepreneurship #MiddleClassPodcast
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You know, I grew up
>> [snorts]
>> in Romania where where you know, you
didn't have the regular things that same
kid growing up in America. It's a
different world there. And so we learned
to be tough.
>> [clears throat]
>> We learned how to deal for ourselves and
how to work for ourselves and how to get
things done that we wanted to have. And
those things I guess give you a certain
amount of character.
Here in America, every 3-year-old, every
4-year-old, every 5-year-old has
everything handed to them. You know,
when they're 7, 8, 9 years old, you
know, everything's handed to them. When
they're 10, 15 years old, everything's
handed to them.
European attitude is a little bit
different in the sense that people have
to work for certain thing. You wanted a
certain thing, you went out and you work
for it. You wanted a new bike, you went
out and sold newspapers until you had
enough money to buy a new bike.
In America, that's very rare when that
happens.
>> [music]
>> Most of our uh neighbors and friends
actually, you know, don't have to go
through all that.
>> [snorts]
>> Daddy buys you everything, you know? So
that's a problem in a certain way
because, you know, they got used to that
comfort level.