Great attitude to make sure you understand the realities of the system and protect yourself from being exploited by it more than is already inherent in the relationship between wage labor and capital.

I make a lot more than most business owners as a mid level employee at BigTech without the headaches.

I worked for a startup that went out of business. You know how much sleep I lost when they were struggling? When they did finally kick the bucket, I called a few people in my network, got another job and kept it moving.

Owning a company is fairly trivial. Just fill out the requisite paperwork[1] and boom, you've got a company. Making it profitable is the hard part.

[1] https://corp.delaware.gov/howtoform/

This whole grinding is the only way to make it attitude has to stop. Do the work you get paid for. I imagine if someone started their own business, their attitude would be vastly different then working for a company on a fixed salary.

The vast, vast, majority of people will never own a significant portion of a company. Outside of normal investments and retirement funds most people will not own a company in the sense we mean here.

I do own my own company. It's pretty easy.