"Without the Glorious State, you wouldn't have had any consumers to make you wealthy!" Here's a business producing commerce-enabling technology in an extremely

"Without the Glorious State, you wouldn't have had any consumers to make you wealthy!" Here's a business producing commerce-enabling technology in an extremely valuable manner, hence the profit. Consumers exchanged their earned, post-tax savings for those things and paid additional tax along the way. To act like governments were short-changed is preposterous. It's "you didn't build that" taken to the extreme, and borderline extortion.