thomenthechanter wrote:
My contract is very specific about who owns what; anything I build on company time belongs to the company (who then might hand over ownership to a client). Anything I do on my own time is my own property.

This isn't any different than, say, an architect or an electrical engineer --- they don't own the house or system they designed while being paid to do so.
Correct....

The company creates the opportunity.

Most of Edison's patents were not the work of Edison, but without the opportunities Edison created it would have been years before they became into being (I wont say if ever.)

That is the same thinking with things like estate tax.

Successful people might very well be successful any where.... however much is owed back to this country.... its law, defense, courts all defended thier right to create and make wealth.

I am sure this will cause a tizzy.... but its true.

You don't want consolidated wealth passing generations or you end up with a "ruling class."

Before you "flip out" consider that defending "keeping EVERYTHING my family created" would be defending being rich not for the value you create on your own, but who you are born to... it would be a form of legacy welfare.