Isn't this just how employment works? If you build something and it turns out to have been a total waste of time and energy, you get paid all the same. If you b

Isn't this just how employment works? If you build something and it turns out to have been a total waste of time and energy, you get paid all the same. If you build something and it turns out to save the company $600k a year, you also get paid, but the surplus value goes to the company in exchange for substantially reducing your financial risk. You can't have it both ways: if you want to capture more of the value, you need to share in more of the risk.