Employment is over rated (build your own empire).

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Not familiar with that 3rd one. Is that one where you recruit people and you get paid for doing so and then they do the same?

MLM sellers are the worst. They're usually the greediest of people who only care about profit and will push whatever crap they're selling on to you because their business depends on it. Most people won't get rich from this sort or marketing but there is money to be made from it, but it's done in such a sleazy desperate way and they try take others down with them by selling the bullshit dream they're hoping to achieve but as long as they get your money then that's all they care about. 

I know people that have gotten into something that sounds similar. Usually selling stuff like supplements or those crazy "magnetic" bands. I don't believe anyone in there really makes much from selling the goods and I've always suspected they're really nothing but a legal ponzi.

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 The forbes richest men on the planet list composed of self made entrepreneur or business men. For too long people around the world more in developing countries depends on regular employment for survival.
Don't get me wrong or misinterpreted there is nothing wrong work round the clock for another person or government helping them build their dream's while you have not set yours rolling but its more annoying to see individuals when jobs are not available continuing there search without trying to look for alternative to means of surviving.
  
   Why should you prefer building your dreams to employment.
1. Like I just earlier said countries can have poor rate of employment no country is bigger than this Even the powerful countries and some times staffs can be cut out throwing them into the unemployment line and the whole cycle of job hunt begins
2. Made to retire at a certain age: as life goes on so does responsibilities and when the source of income is Short lived no matter how much you where initially earning can still affect your survival.
3. Controlled and in some cases over used: developed countries has set up measures to protect employees from silly employer's but in developing counties employers take advantage of their workers, like sexual harassment, over labour, low pays
There are other disadvantages of solely depending on employment.

Self employment has been undervalued and over looked every one wants salary seeing building an idea from the scratch as strenuous
Skill acquisition and self employment aids in alleviating poverty. The real deal is fewer people lack the interest to think,learn and build.

It is very hard to became wealthy working for government except through fraud and stealing of pubic funds!
I believe that people can think on the business to do and has good knowledge about what they should do and become wealthy but the determination, risk, and goals setting is not there. The few that were able to take risk and create wealth are the one we are seeing be rich and help the world in creating jobs for the unemployed one.

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Yes we should get more and more people into becoming entrepreneurs -- but not everyone can be the boss.

I think it's not only about your abilities, but also about your initial capital. The most party of those "self made entrepreneurs" were millionaires from the very beginning. Reading stories of their lives you can see that they are almost never successful with their first project. Mostly it goes like this. They start a company, lose $1 million, start another one and lose another million and so on. Then, after several attempts, they eventually succeed. Most of us simply can't afford this kind of entrepreneurship, and that's why I think that working for a good paying company is much better than starting your own business.

Could be true.

But I think a large amount of the stories that we hear about, such as Steve Jobs starting apple from his garage or Zuckerberg starting facebook as a private media venture at Harvard (I think)

These are smart people that were going to do well regardless of their company. They had the brains to be able to do well, they just took it to the next level with owning a large amount of shares of a company that 'took off'

I agree with you, it's not always like I said, and there are exceptions when people really start from almost zero and become millionaires because they are smart, and also luck plays some part in that too. I just don't want to encourage people on starting their own business because having unequal opportunities with those who are rich from the cradle they will most likely fail. I've heard so many such stories that I can't stay silent on the subject. People lose the little they have while trying to run their own business, while the same money is not a small amount for getting a good education.