The expression “make a living” seems to me to signify more than just earning money to live. “Making a living” can be seen as a creative project of designing a productive, sustainable social existence.
Putting entrepreneurship within the reach of all Americans — which means more than maximizing availability of investment funds, but also to remove artificial amplification of risk (I’m thinking specifically about healthcare), and also to educate citizens in a way that stimulates rather than suppresses the entrepreneurial drive (which means helping students connect their own talents with the existing or potential needs of the community, and perhaps prioritizing specialization over standardization) — is perhaps the highest (reasonable) goal of politics.
Imagine if our goal as humans was to raise our arms and exclaim, “Yes!” for others. Every child should come into the world with all the adults asking, “What can we do to maximize this child’s Is-ness, their ability to thrive?” What happens instead is all too obvious.
That happens to be the very world I am imagining…