Charles Cormier argues AI will push people out of corporate jobs toward entrepreneurship and freelancing. He calls traditional employment a "poison pill" that wastes human potential, and notes that roughly half of Canadians or Americans already have side-hustles. Entrepreneurship is a learnable skill, not an inborn trait.
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That is to take agency and start your own company. I think the future is fully entrepreneurial. What really happened, if you ask me, is that the Industrial Revolution, right, it created these things called corporations, and corporations enslaved humans into 9 to 5, and corporations were so powerful that this became the norm, right? But is safety a good deal? Probably not. It's a poison pill, right? Comfort is death. Like, you get comfort every day, but one day you wake up, you're— and then you need to go into retirement, right? Retirement, people die sooner because they retired. I don't think humans are made to have ceilings. So I think this is all about to change. And I don't buy the thing of like entrepreneurs are born, not made, right? I think anyone can become entrepreneurs. It's to me, it's more of an equation of how much stress is imposed on you and what are your options, right? You need to stress it to grow. And I think that's what we're missing out nowadays. Like society is definitely not veering the right direction. Like shift from the job market that we have right now to the yacht shock. It'll be very nasty, but when humans are done with their tantrums, I think most of them will try to adapt to this new reality, which would be also way more entrepreneurial. And by the way, also, if you check the trends, even without AI, I feel entrepreneurship and freelancing are up. I believe it was the statistics at some point was like 50% of Canadian or US citizens have some kind of side hustle, right?
