Is American entrepreneurship declining or simply changing?
Whatever you call it, an under-appreciated aspect of this economy is how it puts self-employment, of sorts, in many more people’s reach. Sure, companies like Uber, Lyft, and AirBnB (to name just a few prominent examples) are making things easier for consumers. And they often come with neat origin stories, too. But they’re also allowing individuals “to bring their marginal capital and/or labor into productive use,” as the R Street Institute put it. They’re granting more workers more autonomy.
