Successful business depends on luck as much as skill. If you send Elon back to early 2000 and make him start over there is a high chance he’ll fail even if he did exactly the same things.Nah. Salary job is the "safest".
Vast majority of people are too stupid to open a business. Imagine them having to deal with supply chain, economics, legal, paperwork, administration etc.
Vast majority would get bankrupt and then have to be bailed out. It's just bad business and bad gov policy to promote business to the majority of people
The ones who are talented will eventually end up creating their own companies anyway. As for the others, into the grind you go