Every day I hear the same complaint: “Kids today have no options.”
I saw someone blame Zohran’s win in NY on this idea—that young people are cornered, with no paths forward. That’s not just wrong. It’s the opposite of reality. We are drowning in options.
Never in history has a generation had more freedom to choose, build, and grow.

• No mandatory military service

• No wars on our soil

• No inherited duties or feudal chains

• Just a phone, Wi-Fi, and the entire world’s knowledge

A 22-year-old in Lisbon or Lagos can:

• Learn to code for free on YouTube

• Launch a business on Shopify in 48 hours

• Reach 1 million people on X or TikTok

• Raise capital on Kickstarter or AngelList

• Work remotely from Bali while earning in dollars

The Forbes list proves it.
Rockefeller? Gone.
Carnegie? Vanished.
The top is now filled with new money—people who started with nothing but an idea and a laptop. What’s wrong with that?
Nothing.
It’s the greatest upgrade in human history. Your ancestors fought for survival.
You get to fight for meaning. So when someone says “there are no options,” smile.
They’re not seeing the board—they’re just not playing the game. Today, pick one thing.
One skill. One idea. One move.
The field is wide open.

“A kid with a laptop in Lagos today has more access to knowledge, capital, and global markets than Rockefeller did in 1920.”

@APompliano

Peter Thiel recounts the most important moment in the history of Facebook “The most important moment in the history of the company was in July of 2006 when Yahoo offered us a billion dollars. Zuckerberg was 22 at the time, and he owned a quarter of the company. It was just a college site. We had maybe $35 million in revenues, no profits, and so we had a board meeting.” That Monday morning, Zuckerberg started off the meeting saying: “Well, this is a formality. Obviously we’re going to turn this down.” Thiel and the other investors on the board urged Mark to think it through a little bit more: “Mark, you’d make a quarter of a billion dollars. There’s a lot you could do with this money.” Mark responded: “Well, I don’t know what I’d do with the money. I’d probably just start another social networking site, but I kind of like the one I have, so why would I get rid of it?” Ultimately Mark was able to convince the board not to sell Facebook to Yahoo by convincing them that there was a whole set of products that Facebook was planning to build that Yahoo was not valuing properly. Thiel reflects: “And he was right. The future is never valued in these things.”