StressedPenguin
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There is a lot of bitterness in this thread over something I don't understand. I see you are angry but your points all seem to boil down to bitterness rather than well reasoned arguments.
Just to examine your arguments you take two groups you know of personally, then a bunch you have read about, and say you don't like them opening breweries. The reasons for this seem to boil down to:
1) They are too young/inexperienced
2) They are getting financial help from relatives
There are many generalizations listed throughout your argument, specifically:
1) If you are 22-23 and fresh out of college you are irresponsible and incapable of opening a business.
2) The owners of the businesses are going to be the brewers, and there is no way they have any good beer recipes to offer the area and are completely and 100 percent incapable of making good beer.
3) Young people opening breweries have degrees that are worthless/difficult to get a real job with and have no life experiences.
4) It is wrong to save money as a parent to provide your child to offer them a better life than what you had when you were growing up.
5) Once successful, these young people will devolve into a cocaine snorting and irresponsible spending spiral, eventually ending up dead in some meth house (exaggeration taken for effect).
1) I get it, you are irritated this is happening, but your generalizations are wrong. Just because you, or people you have met, were a 22-23 year old fresh out of college who was incapable of opening a business doesn't mean they will be.
2) It is too easy to come onto this forum, look up a couple recipes that people rate highly, and scale it up a bit and make it. Or have a family friend who brews and they let you use their recipe and are just excited to see it in production. Look at others on this very board who have been approached by smaller breweries and asked if they can make their recipe. Or, MAYBE they came up with a good recipe on their own! Blasphemy!
3) I turned 27 less than a month ago, and I promise I have done and seen more of this world than 90 percent of America will in their entire lives. Age does not automatically equal experience or maturity. For every young person you know incapable of opening a business I know a 30-40 year old who STILL isn't.
4) I simply disagree with this.
5) ... or they will succeed?
As for the overall problems you have with it, I simply counter that a young age does not necessarily mean inexperience or immaturity, and more businesses than you will be happy with have gotten financial backing from relatives. Hell, even 30-40 year olds may be able to get financial backing from relatives to make their dreams come true.
It just sounds like you are wishing failure on those you know and every other young person who wants to try something. Maybe you should just be happy that there will be more choices of beer to drink in the near future. Or just don't drink theirs and only give those breweries whose starting steps you approve of business?
Disclaimer: I have received no financial backing from my parents for my life, including college, nor for writing this post.
Just to examine your arguments you take two groups you know of personally, then a bunch you have read about, and say you don't like them opening breweries. The reasons for this seem to boil down to:
1) They are too young/inexperienced
2) They are getting financial help from relatives
There are many generalizations listed throughout your argument, specifically:
1) If you are 22-23 and fresh out of college you are irresponsible and incapable of opening a business.
2) The owners of the businesses are going to be the brewers, and there is no way they have any good beer recipes to offer the area and are completely and 100 percent incapable of making good beer.
3) Young people opening breweries have degrees that are worthless/difficult to get a real job with and have no life experiences.
4) It is wrong to save money as a parent to provide your child to offer them a better life than what you had when you were growing up.
5) Once successful, these young people will devolve into a cocaine snorting and irresponsible spending spiral, eventually ending up dead in some meth house (exaggeration taken for effect).
1) I get it, you are irritated this is happening, but your generalizations are wrong. Just because you, or people you have met, were a 22-23 year old fresh out of college who was incapable of opening a business doesn't mean they will be.
2) It is too easy to come onto this forum, look up a couple recipes that people rate highly, and scale it up a bit and make it. Or have a family friend who brews and they let you use their recipe and are just excited to see it in production. Look at others on this very board who have been approached by smaller breweries and asked if they can make their recipe. Or, MAYBE they came up with a good recipe on their own! Blasphemy!
3) I turned 27 less than a month ago, and I promise I have done and seen more of this world than 90 percent of America will in their entire lives. Age does not automatically equal experience or maturity. For every young person you know incapable of opening a business I know a 30-40 year old who STILL isn't.
4) I simply disagree with this.
5) ... or they will succeed?
As for the overall problems you have with it, I simply counter that a young age does not necessarily mean inexperience or immaturity, and more businesses than you will be happy with have gotten financial backing from relatives. Hell, even 30-40 year olds may be able to get financial backing from relatives to make their dreams come true.
It just sounds like you are wishing failure on those you know and every other young person who wants to try something. Maybe you should just be happy that there will be more choices of beer to drink in the near future. Or just don't drink theirs and only give those breweries whose starting steps you approve of business?
Disclaimer: I have received no financial backing from my parents for my life, including college, nor for writing this post.