If 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.

If 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.