There's No Reward Without Risk | Carol Roth

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🗓️ 21 July 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Success comes with risk. Those who take it often reap the biggest rewards. But what happens when government removes risk—freely spending taxpayer money and facing no consequences for failure? Carol Roth, author of You Will Own Nothing, reveals how this "risk-free" approach has left America drowning in debt without much to show for it. Get all our content ad-free on PragerU.com or download the PragerU app: https://l.prageru.com/45GvWlu Follow PragerU on social media: YouTube Instagram X/Twitter Facebook Rumble Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.1	A cashier at a local burger joint may make $20 an hour.
0:36.5	But the owner of the burger shop chain may make
0:39.0	hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars. Is that fair? Absolutely. Why? Because of the
0:46.0	concepts of risk and reward. Risk and reward are fundamental to navigating the world, from
0:52.7	economics, business, and government to the choices
0:55.1	we make in our own lives. Those choices all depend on how we assess risk and reward.
1:01.7	We understand rewards, but what about risk? Simply put, it is the likelihood of something
1:07.7	turning out worse than expected, plus the chance of that something worse
1:12.1	actually happening. Now, when you think of taking risk, you might think of an activity like
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