My wife and I started a gourmet mushroom farm about 10 years ago after I sold my engineering business. The farm has grown into the largest in the state now, but it’s taken a great deal of hard work and enduring a lot of crop failures until we taught ourselves how to grow. We get approached at least a dozen times a month by twenty and thirty-somethings who want us to teach them mushroom cultivation for free. It took us almost 3 years to learn to produce consistent crops. Then, we had to figure out how and where to sell them. I’ve had several of these wannabe’s get indignant with me, claiming when I refused to teach them my business that I spent years developing and untold thousands of dollars because I was “all about profit”. Yep, you got it! Capitalism, baby!
I would ask them:
IF YOU DO NOT INTEND TO MAKE A PROFIT-—WHY ARE YOU TRYING TO LEARN THE BUSINESS????????