That's my theory too, and US is not the only Western country where this seems to be happening. Voter turnout is falling across the whole Western world, and a big part of it is probably people realizing politics is a circus, and not wanting to touch it with a ten-foot pole. When every choice is equally bad, and you'll have to find your way around the problems by yourself anyway, what's the point of even caring about the political scene? Getting some laugh at its expense is about the best use one can find.
"Like Dotcom, Nõmm next spent a significant amount of time fighting extradition. But eventually in 2015, he voluntarily traveled to the US and was arrested in Virginia."
go check out 8chan or /r/the_donald on reddit sometime if you think I'm joking.
And then, when things do work out, these 'entrepreneurs' are the ones who boast about how they overcame adversity in the face of impossible odds.
Now I understand why Donald Trump is so popular in the US. People just lost all faith in the system; so they might as well get some entertainment out of it.