Startups in a bad economy

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I just read this: http://www.paulgraham.com/badeconomy.html

Who else agrees with what Paul Graham wrote so nicely (and Marc Fleury once wrote something similar along these lines as well) and thinks that starting an own business is the right thing to do? Especially when the only long term perspective in the current job world is to be out of a job soon?