> You want to own part of that risk? Build your own company.

I was with you until your last line. You don't have to build your own company - you can simply go after a job at a company that understands how beneficial it is to align the incentives of its owners and employees.

There plenty of ways to give workers a piece of the pie: there are full-on co-ops (at one end of the spectrum), and there are more watered-down implementations like stock options, ESPP plans, etc., all of which allow the worker to take on some of the risk and share some of the gains.

Plenty of companies also distribute simple profit-sharing bonuses, which (arguably) don't require the employee to take on any risk at all.