I'm not really sure why job creation is the appropriate moral metric. At the end of the day people who get wealthy generally are 'leveraging' (to be polite) the

I'm not really sure why job creation is the appropriate moral metric. At the end of the day people who get wealthy generally are 'leveraging' (to be polite) the work of others. i.e. They are taking the profit from the work of others. If you can do something which is directly wealth creating without employing anyone then arguably you are more entitled to the money you earn. Ceteris paribus. Not an argument that can be settled here, but the moral argument for job creators has to be that it is not a near zero sum game (i.e. it is not the case that if you don't create jobs then someone else will) and that they are systemically important. That is if we remove (magically/without shock) some of the current crop of job creators we would end up with an economic depression and as such they are an important societal good.