We live in a world that punishes people for being successful at honestly working to make money that overall benefits everyone. A type of insane collective masochism.

Well, I have observed this to be true. Very few had their fortunes handed to them. They were industrious and inventive and not afraid to work hard. Hours and hours of hard work.

I do not understand the importance of how much of a business's value comes from its founders' involvement and work and how much comes from retun on equity. This article seems to value (I may be missing the point) founders' involvement, but a system that operates w/o the founders is where the real value is. The surgeon who sells her labor at a high rate and the inventor of the surgical tool she uses both created value.

When my wife does a lot of billing at her legal practice, the first thing I think is how can you get your associate doing that billing. In my mind it's all about scalability and saleability. This is why I left consulting: I couldn't build the processes to make it independent from me. I see nothing fundamentally noble about the founders doing a lot of the work.