Really, the highest earning "occupations" (or most prestigious) change as time goes:
- in the 1800s many smart people became authors or poets.
- in the 1950 many became physicists
- around 2000, many became entrepreneurs (or even venture capitalists)
Purely macro-economic reasons can dictate, that sometimes it is best to be an entrepreneur (say, in times of "under-investment"), sometimes a consultant and yet again, sometimes an employee (in times of "over-investment" in a sector)
Purely macro-economic reasons can dictate, that sometimes it is best to be an entrepreneur (say, in times of "under-investment"), sometimes a consultant and yet again, sometimes an employee (in times of "over-investment" in a sector)