&gt; People get rich on the unpaid labor of others.<p>&quot;citation needed&quot; (c)<p>&gt; There was the whole temp workers thing.<p>&quot;bullshit&quot; (c). You automatically assume that under other conditions these workers would have made more money. In many similar cases though, they would have stayed unemployed. So you have to prove the point that somebody made some actual wealth from underpaying these workers. Which is possible, but not automatically true.<p>Also, <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;paulgraham.com&#x2F;wealth.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;paulgraham.com&#x2F;wealth.html</a><p>Also, I was born and lived half of my life in Soviet Union. I know what you&#x27;re talking about and experienced it first hand. I&#x27;ve also experienced big time what happens when it doesn&#x27;t work (and so far there&#x27;s no good example in the world of it working sustainably).