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In reply to the discussion: There is not a single business owner in this country who got where they are 100% on their own [View all]Hugabear
(10,340 posts)Building a house takes a lot of education - somebody had to provide that to you.
You would have had to take advantage of infrastructure put in place by government.
Assuming that you aren't Superman, then you needed help to actually build the house, in the form of subcontractors, workers, etc.
Nobody is denigrating anybody's hard work. We're just pointing out that you didn't get there all by yourself. None of us operate in a bubble. We are all reliant, to one degree or another, on others for help and assistance. It is virtually impossible to build a business with 100% complete independence.
This "society is going to take" argument sounds like what I would expect to hear from conservatives, grouching about how government wants to take their money.