Wealth isn’t created at the top, it is merely devoured there
Lately I've been thinking about how funny it is that we make heroes out of the heads of tech companies.<p>Especially in technology, does anyone really believe that if these particular individuals hadn't contributed their talents, the world would have turned out much different?<p>Would there be no operating systems without Gates? No social networks without Zuckerberg? No search engines without Page? No e-commerce without Bezos? (Granted, Bezos is pretty exceptional.)<p>Why should particular individuals capture such massive rewards when their success had more to do with circumstance than anything else?<p>(There's a connection here to the "great man theory" of history and its critiques.)