Because lack of social skills makes it more difficult to figure out what other people want and how much they are lying when they say they want something, more difficult to convince people to buy your product instead of the competing products, etc.
To put it simply, I assume that in modern economy, the actual problem is selling stuff, not producing it. Things can be produced cheaply in China; software can be written by Indians or LLMs; apologies for the crude simplification. Some people make money selling worthless shit, such as homeopathy. Markets for useful things are oversaturated.
If you are good at selling, but you can’t produce, you can hire someone to produce the stuff, or you can become someone’s agent. If you are good at producing, but you can’t sell, you can… get a job, or give it away for free and beg for money on Patreon (and even that is a kind of selling, because if you suck at self-promotion, people will simply ignore your Patreon account).
Jobs are the way to convert your production skills into income if you don’t have the social skills.
600 days of 8 hours of work on a business. [...] Are you going to say the odds of success are low?
Yes. Hours of work do not automatically translate to success. It is possible to spend two years working full-time on something that no one wants to buy, and maybe isn’t even good enough (you mention skipping college, so we are talking about a person with high-school level skills and experience).
Because lack of social skills makes it more difficult to figure out what other people want and how much they are lying when they say they want something, more difficult to convince people to buy your product instead of the competing products, etc.
To put it simply, I assume that in modern economy, the actual problem is selling stuff, not producing it. Things can be produced cheaply in China; software can be written by Indians or LLMs; apologies for the crude simplification. Some people make money selling worthless shit, such as homeopathy. Markets for useful things are oversaturated.
If you are good at selling, but you can’t produce, you can hire someone to produce the stuff, or you can become someone’s agent. If you are good at producing, but you can’t sell, you can… get a job, or give it away for free and beg for money on Patreon (and even that is a kind of selling, because if you suck at self-promotion, people will simply ignore your Patreon account).
Jobs are the way to convert your production skills into income if you don’t have the social skills.
Yes. Hours of work do not automatically translate to success. It is possible to spend two years working full-time on something that no one wants to buy, and maybe isn’t even good enough (you mention skipping college, so we are talking about a person with high-school level skills and experience).