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"You didn't build that!!!"

To a certain extent that is true, everyone has help. To that extent, society “built that.”
But, as Thomas Paine pointed out at the very start of his Common Sense,

SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.
Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one: for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries BY A GOVERNMENT, which we might expect in a country WITHOUT GOVERNMENT, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer. Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built upon the ruins of the bowers of paradise. For were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver; but that not being the case, he finds it necessary to surrender up a part of his property to furnish means for the protection of the rest; and this he is induced to do by the same prudence which in every other case advises him, out of two evils to choose the least. Wherefore, security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows that whatever form thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us, with the least expense and greatest benefit, is preferable to all others.
But, even admitting that much, “you” - the businessman who owns a business - would not own that for long, never mind start it up in the first place, without a great deal of initiative and commitment. The dirty little secret is that profit or loss is a small difference of large numbers - and that attention to detail makes the difference between a profit and a devastating loss. And if “society” is responsible, no one in particular is actually responsible - and those details will not get attended to.
And that is why society rewards “you” with profits for assuming that responsibility and executing it - and punishes you with losses if you assume that responsibility and fail to execute it.
Companies fail every day. The “You didn’t build that” crowd consists of people to whom that reality is is actually painfully clear. If they actually believed it was as easy to make a profit as they make it sound, they would be doing it themselves instead of second-guessing the ones who did it successfully.