I was the owner of a bicycle shop and I assure you -- I owe you nothing.
I note the operant word there "was".
You remind me of Obama when he said you did not build that business.
Well, considering that you probably had the usual misunderstanding about it, let me help you!
If you "built" a bicycle shop you used ROADS and ELECTRICAL GRIDS which allowed you to establish a business. You had clean drinking water and safe food and drugs so you weren't constantly battling illness so you could concentrate on your business. You had healthy customers because of these things.
No, but I'm sure you built your bicycle business out in the middle of the vacuum of space without ANY mooring on planet earth let alone whatever country you were in at the time.
That's the point, M-Bob. YOU may have built it
but you wouldn't have even been able to imagine building such a business without a society around you. That's what that phrase means.
Let's put it this way: I have a goodly number of PATENTS to my name, but there's no way I could have gotten those patents without a lot of support structure around me. SURE I came up with the ideas that got the patent and that's the person whose name is on the patent, but I needed the lab space my company provided for me, I needed the work of technicians to test the product, I needed the roads and electrical grid that I relied on to get into work and be able to do my work.
Does that make sense to you? Can you understand that point even in the abstract?
