> No, you add value to their labor and in return get to keep some of it. How much value? Who determines how much you get to keep of it? These are highly charge

> No, you add value to their labor and in return get to keep some of it. How much value? Who determines how much you get to keep of it? These are highly charged political questions that have driven a lot of economic history! > But to see a fortune and assume a theft... I never said theft. I responded directly to the idea that people vast wealth is merely "the fruits of one's labor." And I stand by this statement: it is not, it is the fruit of many people's labor. > ...is to fundamentally misunderstand economics. I suppose I should tell my economics professors.