When that money came out of those people's pockets they went home with a computer that they obviously valued more than the money itself. By their own judgement they walked out of a store carrying more wealth than they walked in with. Michael Dell made himself wealthy but he made his customers even more wealthy.

Or they worked for 40 hours assembling computers for minimum wage while the company made billions and billions off that worker labour.

When someone takes silicon and produces a computer chip, it's pretty clear to me that value has been created that didn't exist before. Within my memory, we've gone from Z80s to 4GHz multi-core. How can you look at that and see a fixed sized pie? It's obviously growing.

Well, no. His father has honestly earned his fortune by creating a big business that employs thousands.

I suggest you stop preaching this Marxist crap. I was born in the Soviet Union and I tell you what: countries built with such "Rob the rich, give back to the poor" mindset are extremely bad to live in.

As opposed to the US where it's rob the poor give to the rich and it's so wonderful?

Would you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and using HN for ideological battle, so we don't have to ban you again?

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and post in the spirit of this site, we'd be grateful. It's not hard to use HN as intended if you want to.