Is entrepreneurship really such a risk?

One of the major problems our society has is the inability to take responsibility. I don’t say this as a criticism because I’m just as guilty of it as the next person–it’s just a fact. When faced with responsibility, we tend to chicken out and run the other way. We try to take the burden of responsibility and hand it to someone else. This is the reason most of society believes entrepreneurship is risky compared to working for the man. But here’s the thing: risk is different from responsibility. Is entrepreneurship really more risky, or does it just involve more responsibility? It’s the latter that frightens people, not the former.