>Please point to a platform that has created wealth for itself, at the expense of others wealth (thus not creating new wealth). >platforms don’t work hard enou

>Please point to a platform that has created wealth for itself, at the expense of others wealth (thus not creating new wealth). >platforms don’t work hard enough for the cut they take” Surely these are indeed synonymous. There's a bit of linguistic subterfuge in using "wealth" to refer to both cash and services rendered. In order to determine if a company has "created new wealth" we must indeed balance the cut they have taken with the value of services rendered. And yeah, I would argue that most "platforms" do not render value equivalent to the cut they take, and instead are exploiting some sort of monopoly position obtained through network effects. You asked me to to name some, so I would place the mobile app stores and Facebook in this category.