> The current young people simply are too unstable and too close to poverty to take the risks.
One piece of the solution that is very clear to me and contains many other upsides is better access to healthcare. The fact that Americans mostly get healthcare through large corporate jobs significantly ratchets up the risk of entrepreneurialism. A better healthcare safety net would make it safer to leave the safe confines of a corporate job that provides health insurance.
If you are an entrepreneur under say 40, can’t you just roll a D10 and hope you don’t get a 1? Surely most people before middle-age won’t need expensive healthcare?
A 10% chance of a million-dollar healthcare bill you can't pay and will spend the rest of your life dealing with is still shitty odds on top of all of the other risks involved in starting a business.
Also: parents. Childbirth is expensive and most parents want some reasonable level of certainty that they can afford good healthcare for their kids. Or, to put a finer point on it, when forced to choose between health stability for their children and starting a business, most will sacrifice the latter to get the former.
One piece of the solution that is very clear to me and contains many other upsides is better access to healthcare. The fact that Americans mostly get healthcare through large corporate jobs significantly ratchets up the risk of entrepreneurialism. A better healthcare safety net would make it safer to leave the safe confines of a corporate job that provides health insurance.