I have created and supported products I have no ability to use because I'm not a large enterprise, and I don't think I'm particularly unique. Because of that,

I have created and supported products I have no ability to use because I'm not a large enterprise, and I don't think I'm particularly unique. Because of that, I disagree that producers and users of a product would ideally be one in the same. If organizations are required to perform all development and support in-house, specialization will be difficult if not impossible, and innovation and improvement will slow significantly. Wealth and power distributions are relative, and if you're saying that moving towards a more even distribution from where we are now would be a good thing, I agree. However, I don't think a perfectly even distribution is desirable or even possible. Also, large amounts of wealth in the hands of a small number of individuals is far from useless (it's not buried underground or stored in a vault), and whether it's bad or not depends on the context.