"rbowman" wrote in message
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On 11/09/2019 08:39 PM, Ray wrote:


"Clare Snyder" wrote in message
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On Sat, 9 Nov 2019 15:53:32 -0500, Wade Garrett
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On 11/9/19 4:27 AM, Roscoe wrote:
Bernie or Liz I think asked that and it got me thinking. A billion
is a thousand thousands. Does anyone really need to be a billionaire?

If the rich didn't create all that wealth-- who would the liberals take
it from?
It is inaccurate to say the rich "create" wealth. They "accumulate"
wealth

Some like Gates and Bezos do create wealth by
producing what some choose to use or consume.

With the exception of some of the Amazon sponsored shows, Bezos doesn't
produce a damn thing.

He did produce a very viable market place that many choose to use.

Don't get me wrong -- Amazon is my go-to source for many things but they
are just a highly efficient retailer.

They are in fact much more than just that with their third party stuff.

Even AWS doesn't add anything to the mix other than a service.

That’s not true of kindles and ebooks alone.

Yeah, I'm a dinosaur and I never quite got the whole service economy
thing.

It is in fact the vast bulk of modern first world economies.

Gates, or I should say Microsoft, does create software.

And some hardware. So has amazon.

Even that is very intangible.

No more intangible than a book or movie or doco.
Or music in the case of the Beatles or Beethoven etc.

I've been in the software game for about 40 years and I'm not sure
anything I've done was all that necessary or even had a positive effect.

You say the same thing about all entertainment, books,
movies, docos, music or pictures or sculpture or sports.