"I'm just going to make two points quietly while uttering a silent scream. First, no one "creates wealth." Wealth is obtained by figuring out a way to get people to give you part of what they have in exchange for something you have, or something you've invented. In the past 20 years, the inventions have been mostly technology and fancy financial convolutions intended to relieve people of their money and place it in the pockets of hedge fund managers and bankers. In Ben's case, he's figured out how to make money by getting advertisers to pay for a young know-it-all to spew nonsense on the air. He didn't create that. He just exploits it.
Second, no one does it by themselves. No one.This arrogant belief that it was their hard work and their hard work alone, with no assistance from anyone anywhere ever is nonsense."
