That is the whole argument, and it rests on three claims.
First, it is real. Small business is not the sideshow of the American economy. It is what America built its entire brand on. The SBA counts 36 million of them, employing nearly half the private workforce and producing more than 43 percent of GDP. This is not a niche market. It is the market.
Second, ownership makes it defensible. AI is compressing white-collar work, fastest in the careers a generation was told were safest. But the corporation is not the endangered party. It is the beneficiary. The job gets eliminated. The owner has a choice. Independence was the risky path. Now it is the only one with options left. You either own your time or you rent it. Only one of those compounds.
Third, it is newly enabled. The same technology taking the job hands a one-person company the leverage of a fifty-person one. Software, distribution, and back office cost almost nothing now. The tool that makes you replaceable as an employee makes you formidable as an owner. That is the whole trade. The $1 million solopreneur used to be a fluke. Now it is a realistic goal for millions of people.