&gt; Because the structure that enabled you to amass that amount of wealth is flawed, and disproportionately rewards &quot;you&quot; over the network that actually did much of the heavy lifting<p>This thinking is so poisonous and destructive and pervasive that I&#x27;m starting to wonder if it is either due to some natural law of human nature or some grand conspiracy to destroy modern society. Businesses are <i>not</i> built on the charity of the &quot;system&quot;. Everyone is compensated in the building of a business, in exactly the amounts they demand to be compensated. The government gets its taxes, the employees get their salaries and benefits, the shareholders get their equity, and the founder(s) get(s) the rest. At that point, everyone is squared. Risk is appropriately rewarded, and risk is an absolute requirement if you want great things to happen.