Overemployment where you hold multiple jobs simultaneously is the far better goal for those who are ambitious and want to make a lot of money these days. Not entrepreneurship.
As an overemployed worker, you will work less than an entrepreneur but probably start making far more money than them right away. Overemployment is also more friendly to failure. If you fuck up a job and lose it, it takes little effort to just find a new one. You might even have a severance as a bonus. The entrepreneur will probably just drink beer and spiral into depression as they wrestle with the choice of starting yet another business or finding some kind of job they can tolerate.
Overemployment will also force you to have incredible time management, and the high you get from running your day like a well oiled machine delivers far better satisfaction than the terrifying uncertainty that comes with entrepreneurship.
Furthermore, overemployment allows you to truly “turn off” in a way entrepreneurship doesn’t. At the end of the day, since you’re just working for another company, your responsibilities are limited. You can push away from your desk and live life stress free.
You could be grossing around $500k a year easily as an overemployed worker, meaning that with prudent saving and investment you will have amassed millions in the span of a decade, almost guaranteed. The entrepreneur probably has to work a decade just to maybe get the chance at a similar pay day someday, and for many that day never comes.
Entrepreneurship doesn’t carry the same prestige it used to. Nowadays there’s a lot of “entrepreneurs” out there and the term has become a bit derogatory, hence the need for quotes. Indeed, someone is more likely to be a charlatan or just a fucking loser if they call themselves an entrepreneur, rather than an actual successful business owner.
Overemployment on the other hand is gaining prestige. Most people are immediately impressed when you tell them you have two six figure jobs at the same time. Imagine how eyes would nearly pop out of people’s heads if you told them you worked at Facebook and Google, at the same time. You can’t bullshit overemployment the way you can bullshit entrepreneurship: two jobs is two jobs.
So all you young men take this advice: build the most valuable skill set and knowledge base you can, and get multiple six figure jobs with decent tech companies. The world doesn’t really need another shitty business idea, it needs people who want to work.