What is the solution to encourage and enable more of us to mine Bitcoin?

We're happy to set up a node for ideological or security reasons, but how do we encourage more mining so it's less in the hands of corporations and more in the hands of us common people?

As it stands it's not financially viable compared to just plonking your investment money into buying BTC instead. That's kinda backwards, no? and must have long term ramifications to us, especially with corporations and governments increasing their Bitcoin involvement.

Can we create perhaps something like mining pools for small fry only to bring a bit of power back to the people in the process?

If that's too serious a question, you can instead tell me if you prefer dogs or cats.