I could go into some detail refuting a lot of your arguments but it’s pointless as a lot of them are half right.

As for who employes the most people it’s small business not larger ones and definitely not megacorporations once one gets past being impressed by those vast global numbers.

However, let’s get by one little point. Computers as we now know them were developed during World War 2 in Britain and the United States to (a) codebreak and (b)make the calculations necessary to lay (aim) large guns properly be they field pieces or ship based. As those who developed them were in the employ of the military as part of the total war effort against the Axis powers no one got rich from it. They did make a huge contribution to the defeat of the Axis.

IBM did see the commercial value in one or two of these things post war but not too many more so they stitched together what we call the mainframe which largely did accounting and billing duties.

You are right in saying that most of the (overwhelmingly) men who established how we now communicate over computers and other devices we now take for granted were largely done by visionaries and dreamers. Or by sheer necessity. For example the Roman aqueduct system.

There is that aspect of the 1% and they’re very rare. It’s not often you trip over a Bill Gates or a Linus Torvalds. I suspect it’s this part of the 1% you’re referring to.

Then there’s the bunch that have inherited wealth that they just sit on, let someone else invest and watch it grow as they lecture the rest of us on the values of free enterprise and unrestricted capitalism. If you recall the ones making those noises the loudest before 2008 were large investment bankers who were playing dice with peoples savings.

They’d forgotten that they were a service industry who, themselves, have never created a thing of enduring value even if, on occasion, they’d loaned the money that made such creations possible. They still haven’t got that right. Have a look at what’s going on with Barclay’s Bank today.

And speaking of value there are people who create things of priceless value every day even if they don’t know it. People who tend to their little front gardens which bloom with colour a life this time of year and make the neighbourhood so much better by what they do.

So there’s a lot in your post of “knowing the cost of everything and the value of nothing”. Don’t worry, that’s become all too common these days.

There also seems a lot of, to quote it correctly, of the biblical quote “the love of money is the root of all evil”. Wealth, in and of itself creates nothing and employs no one. The wealthy do have something of a duty to those less fortunate than they are. Not in the sense of nobless oblige but more in the sense of helping their neighbours and acting responsibly with their wealth. Certainly not in the sense of class warfare or what Soviet and Chinese style socialism/communism created who had their own wealthy classes.

But the neighbourhood gardener that can bring colour, life, variety and a place where people just look and relax is as valuable as a any captain of industry. The guy across the street who helps cut the lawn without being asked is just as valuable as any inventor or captain of industry. The volunteer coach, the singers in a church or other choir are as valuable and on and on.

Value isn’t just money. Try to remember that.

And try to remember that the 1% being protested against were, by and large, in the banking industry whose irresponsibility put our economies where they are today. And some, like Barclays, continue in their irresponsibility.