Bezos made a website. He made "Walmart online". Now, is he the world's best website creator? Did he win some online store creation world championship? Is he even in the top 1000 of the world's best website-coders? How about Gates: did he create the world's most popular operating system? Or the best? Or Steve Jobs: did he develop ANY of the technologies used in either the iPod or the iPhone? The answer to all these questions is a resounding NO.
It doesn't work like that. You get rewarded for the value that you bring to the market, not for working hard or being the best coder in the World. All three guys that you named brought a tremendous value to the market.
You can work your ass off but if what you bring to the market is not valued by it, you won't get rewarded. Just ask all those writers that spent years writing books that nobody wants to buy and read.
They didn't steal their money, people paid them voluntarily. Did you buy a PC running Windows? Xbox? iPhone? Used amazon to shop online? Then you contributed to their wealth.
If you want to make a solid case for the universal healthcare don't waste your time finding ways to say billionaires are evil in such a way that you can deny saying that.
Universal healthcare is a good idea that can stand on its own. No need to shit on poor ol' Gates.
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