the wealth a single man produces is bounded by physical law and physical limits. Even for an artist to make an abstraction such as a painting the artist needs to use material and energy both which are part of a zero sum game.<p>when said artist accumulates 1 billion dollars worth of wealth did that mean he painted 1 billion dollars worth of paintings?   Did the billionaires of the modern world single handedly each create a billion dollars worth of wealth?<p>take a 747 airliner. a product worth less than a billion dollars in value. such a product must be built by multitudes of people because projects of such immense complexity require man hours that exceed several life times. If billionaires exist it implies that the billionaire built several products of equivalent value and complexity all by himself.<p>for a single man to hold such extraordinary  wealth of absurd proportions means one thing and one thing only. He built his wealth off the backs of others.