Society doesn’t award money to individuals. Other individuals award money to individuals, through mutually beneficial exchange (wages, purchases, etc). Don’t ma

Society doesn’t award money to individuals. Other individuals award money to individuals, through mutually beneficial exchange (wages, purchases, etc). Don’t make the mistake of giving society too much credit. Sure we need roads, power, and the basics to be able to build businesses at all. But society doesn’t do much more than that to fuel success - that is still largely built on the backs of a few intelligent, hardworking risk takers. Society is especially at its worst when they get in the way of individual freedoms and free market distribution of wealth. I think a good example of this is California, whose policies are bad for business, whose public services are terrible despite massive taxes, and whose overall economic size is more because of a lucky agglomeration in the Bay Area than because of intentional governmental policy.