We are talking about two different things. You are talking about people working for some organization - the service class. I am talking about the self-employed/small businessmen, who see their business becoming redundant, the walls closing in and nowhere to run to. The service class have an umbrella of some kind, some severance benefits, some unions etc.. to fall back on. It is worse for the small businesses because it is not the management which may make you redundant, but the changing mores of society and times, something you can not counter, and your limitations/circumstances may not allow you to afford the change.
A service class guy resigning to start own business is called an entrepreneur. A small businessman trying to start another business is called a loser. For these people it's like being in quicksand, watching it sink and no one to throw you a line.