Growing up in the projects doesn’t make the state the cause of a billionaire’s success.
There are very few billionaires. They are uniquely gifted at some skill and the ability to sell it. In my opinion, you don’t get lucky and make a billion unless it’s with a lottery ticket.
So like Schultz or not, he’s a gifted businessman, and any benefit he obtained from government when he was a kid, it was not what made him a billionaire.
And just to be fair, if Moore wants to claim Schultz’ success because of time in the projects, then Moore needs to give just as much air time to the failures that came from the projects and to the big average middle. (Me, for example.)
Growing up in the projects doesn’t make the state the cause of a billionaire’s success.“Right away by admitting that you had subsidized public housing paid for by the tax dollars of the American people, you aren’t self-made. You got a hand-up from us like we wanted it,”
Obviously you don’t understand the system: if you get anything from the government, the government owns you. Whatever you accomplish in life is due to the government.
</sarcasm> I, Pencil is an article written in 1958 by Leonard E. Read. The burden of the article is how diffuse are the inputs to make a simple item like a pencil. Of course a particular company - Eberhard Faber, in the example instance - made the pencil. But Mr. Eberhard and Mr. Faber did not simply speak the pencil into existence; the company has to have buildings housing machinery, and workers to operate the machines. But beyond that, the Eberhard Faber workers have to have food, shelter, and normal amenities - including those required by their families.
And the same is true of the vendors who supply Eberhard Faber with the machinery they require, and all the obvious materials - wood, graphite, rubber, and the ferrule material and the enamel. All those vendors have their own equipment, workers, and supply chain. And in all cases the workers need food, shelter, and normal amenities. So although the pencil certainly does not exist without Eberhard Faber, society works together to make pencils - and everything else.
So, “You didn't build that? Somebody else made that happen?” Yes - but that “somebody else” was not government. The “somebody” was more like everybody - mostly very indirectly. It is not the government but society - as Thomas Paine points out in Common Sense, a very different thing - which makes the pencil.