Unpopular Opinion
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The fallacy that people "make work" is so ingrained in our societies. Yep, i get up in the morning and "build" a "work" for someone to work in. Sure buddy.
What happens is that a) in a specific place, there is a demand, say for example for shoes, and someone with the money and education starts a shoe shop there. Now he can hire someone doing the grunt work.
The smart business guy can try to open 1.000 shoe shops in spaces where there are no demand and despite how early ge gets up in the morning and how hard he works they will all fail (and hire no one in the end).
They're investors, they open that shoe shop, knowing the risk (because they learned how to assess a businessplan in business school), and because they open several, the risk is mitigated (if one shop doesn't "work out" just fire the workers and close it, putting the cost on the other shops).
This is classic business, and you can even have a go at it yourself (at big risks as you can probably only open one shop yourself, but you can, maybe).
A sidenote about Eat the rich, they are not business investors, they bought up the country, the government, law and order, they are breaking the social contract and even the contract of how money works, that's why it's not just important but for our own survival that we must "eat the rich".
Just because you lack the ability to create work doesn't mean others do. I've seen people start a restaurant and hire workers, creating work for them to do
That's because there was a need, a demand.
Demand is made by policy, global economy and so, not by some hard working person, that person "just" (it can for sure be hard work, I'm not denying that) fills an existing need.