There is a scene in Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (1957) where Dagny Taggert and Hank Rearden are looking for the owner of the Twentieth Century Motor Company.   They are at the county clerk’s office looking for records and the clerk makes a profound statement about the last known owner.  The gentlemen bought the factory, not to run it, but to turn it for profit without actually producing anything.  The exchange was this:

“Did Mark Yonts operate the factory before he sold it?”

Clerk:  “Lord, no, ma’am!  He wasn’t the kind that ever operates anything.  He didn’t want to make money, only to get it.”

I find this very descriptive of many in this day and age.  We value businesses that, in essence, do not make money.  They make little of anything.  You erase their servers, turn off the electricity, block their service and they have nothing of real value.  They do not create wealth, simply move it around.  In our society the goal has been to get as much stuff and money without much real effort.  And it has led to a sense of entitlement and the belief that “I deserve” regardless of whether “I earned” or “I made”.  Think about that.