[tetris11]

> That is true. And yet, Microsoft also made many of those employees into millionaires. Is your objection that they should have become multi-millionaires instead? (Yes, I know, not all became millionaires either.)

Microsoft is not a single entity, it is the combined efforts of thousands of talented and not-so talented devs. The success of the company should yield financial reward for all employees at a uniform rate.

> And what is your proposed solution? That business owners not be allowed to keep the profits of their business? That owners of large businesses not be allowed to keep the profits? Or... what?

That they pay their taxes, and that the pay ratios between highest and lowest paid employees in the company are capped to something that is less than 500:1.

[AnimalMuppet]

That doesn't solve dTal's complaint. Bill Gates got rich as an owner, not primarily as an employee.