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I agree that hundreds of millions of people have benefited from Intel CPUs, McDonald's burgers and everything else by those companies.

But I was talking in strictly financial terms. The founders, employees and early shareholders benefited the most from those companies in financial terms. The economy did benefit significantly, indirectly, no doubt....just trying to bring it back to his argument about 'bankers milking the fractional reserve system for their profit'.



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