Risk Takers Needed--Las Vegas Sun

"Risk and risk-takers have been celebrated... in the American economy and culture for two decades. George Gilder...summed it up:

• “A successful economy depends on the proliferation of the rich, on creating a large class of risk-taking men who are willing to

• shun the easy channels of a comfortable life in order to create new enterprise, win huge profits, and invest them again.”

Gordon Gekko of Oliver Stone’s “Wall Street” was a fictional hero to a generation. Our real heroes include Everest climbers and strivers"...

• Now fewer are able or inclined to take risk.

(Las Vegas Sun, continuing): "...the risk-averse trend could be “very dangerous, if you also consider the people who have taken risks on the community as a whole and may no longer want to"... illustration from Las Vegas Sun

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