>Wealth is always "stolen". Behind every great wealth is a great crime. No, my last boss started with absolutely nothing after escaping the genocides in Cambod

>Wealth is always "stolen". Behind every great wealth is a great crime. No, my last boss started with absolutely nothing after escaping the genocides in Cambodia with his family and built his company and wealth through work. >Bill Gates didn't generate his wealth. His workers generated the wealth, he and the shareholders just siphoned the largest part of it. I struggle back and forth with my views on this. You're not wrong, but it ignores the fact that without the capital provided by the company, there'd be no workers to generate wealth. As sad as it is, a group of independent workers isn't going to generate as much wealth as an organized company. I though about this a lot as I worked. In a couple hours of work, I would bring in anywhere from $10,000-$20,000 for the company. My wage was far lower. But in the end, it would be impossible for me to do this without the couple million dollars worth of machines and computers I used. I could run my own shop, but I'd need customers, I would be doing a significantly lower volume of jobs and would be probably lucky to bring that much in after a few months. My expenses would be lower, I'd have to do everything by hand, but my ability generate wealth would be almost non-existent for years and years.