I can't speak as someone with experience starting a successful business, but you have two examples in your post of something going wrong in a business and a par

I can't speak as someone with experience starting a successful business, but you have two examples in your post of something going wrong in a business and a part-owner of the business being penalized for it. They're fair examples, but why do you shine no light on the other side? When businesses are successful, shouldn't everyone who had a hand in that share in the rewards? To me, that's the argument for including workers in the ownership of a company. Structure it however you want - if the people putting in the money to start the business deserve more ownership because of that, that's your right. But don't paint an incomplete picture.