Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.
Fortunes are made, and disappear, over the lifetime of a single generation. Today, a person in essence takes his wealth from society just for the duration of his or her lifetime. The next generation has to create it anew.

