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You do sound negative and it doesn’t seem like a useful negativity. The world consolidating into so few companies is new, and any attempt at smaller more self s
by hklgny 5y ago
You do sound negative and it doesn’t seem like a useful negativity. The world consolidating into so few companies is new, and any attempt at smaller more self sufficient businesses seems to me like a good thing.
Who cares if they make the equivalent of an Uber driver. Making that money not driving for Uber adds variety to the economy and we all win as a result.
It’s like opening a modern day corner store. Sure they all look similar, but it’s ownership and it matters and the people doing it should be proud of themselves.
- jaredklewis 5y agoIf the bulk of these solopreneurs are—in their role as entrepreneurs—as economically productive as corner store owners, then I agree that this trend is great. But the parent is asserting that the reality is that most of these solopreneurs are a actually just delusional, in that they consider themselves entrepreneurs but aren’t actually all that enterprising. My intuition is that the parent is right, but the article doesn’t have much data to support or refute either of these theories.