Entrepreneur’s are vilified?
Have you been to the bay area lately? Or any incubator in a major city?
Everyone wants to be an entrepreneur because of how worshiped they are now. And its a good thing.
Perhaps I should have said entrepreneurship? I suppose I am referring to the fact that in TV shows, kiddie cartoons, Hollywood films, yes, the evil factory owner is ubiquitous. Businessmen in general are depicted as void of any morality whatsoever. Greedy, haughty, corrupt, murderous, even, while those in government, who do display those qualities, are the good guys.
College commencement speeches invariably portray "public service" as the higher calling. Capitalism itself is maligned, if not vilified in the culture at large.
The business owner, small and large, is the openly declared enemy of tax and regulatory policies. It is assumed they are greedy and evil, all of them, and must be restrained by the "good" who chose public service.
I suppose the "budding" entrepreneur is somewhat exalted as you say, but once they achieve success, they join the reviled, in many, many cases.
Were you in Baltimore last year? Ferguson Missouri the year before that?