# "If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [July 17, 2012, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youve-got-a-business-you-didnt-build-that-somebody-else-made-that-happen/628503 "2012-07-17T08:54:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Untoward\_Parable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/51bf81/32.png) [@Untoward\_Parable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Untoward_Parable)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2012, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youve-got-a-business-you-didnt-build-that-somebody-else-made-that-happen/628503/305 "2012-07-21T05:06:59Z")

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> [@Koxinga](#):
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> Can you justify your apparent belief that there is a zero sum game involved?

You think Romney’s existence or Bill Gate’s existence increased the value of humanity by their net worths? It doesn’t matter that it’s not a zero sum game, (sometimes it’s a negative sum game). They are no worth that much, other people in non-executive non-managerial roles (that work) are worth more than they’ve gotten throughout history. Apologetics of the ultra-rich by the not ultra-rich is Stockholm syndrome.

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