Why aren’t more philosophers entrepreneurs? There are many entrepreneurs and few

Why aren’t more philosophers entrepreneurs? There are many entrepreneurs and few philosophers. Entrepreneurship and philosophy are time consuming activities. And honestly, contributing to philosophy is far harder than contributing to the economy via entrepreneurship. To combine entrepreneurship and philosphy requires selling books. Selling books for income requires writing books frequently. Philosophical problems are not solve with frequency, or in short time frames.

Spinoza ground lenses and lived poorly and died young having the same asthma as I. I write software, live well and have outlived him despite the asthma. He spent his whole life writing a parsimonious two hundred pages.

The university allows you to report your progress while teaching, to practice the art of lecture and distillation of ideas. And to capture the results of both in your books. And so the university provides the optimum environment for writing whatever you’re writing about.

The question is wether writing in that environment leads you to conclusions and whether writing in the business environment leads you to different conclusions.

It appears so.

It also appears that it is far costlier and therefore less common to write philosophy while also working on entrepreneurship.