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Mostly stones, that she finds and/or buys herself. <.<

Yes, she's personally invested in invading poor countries for their oil...FFS...Even trolls wouldn't say something that stupid.

You didn't ask for that. But again...how did Bill Gates creating the internet. Ya know the thing you use, hurt anyone and make people poor, I'm waiting...

You didn't even spell the word right...:I

Also more examples, youtubers, twitch casters, self publishing books, entire sites for personal stores. And many more, people earning money in all sorts of ways and not doing shit to anybody in the process, you very, very uninformed person...
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>Bill Gates
>Internet

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Never the less, I'm sure you mean computers. Which as should be known: Bill Gates didn't invent, he merely got them to such a cheap price-point they were available to the greater consumer base. But the question can still be considered valid: Did Bill Gates exploit people?

Even unattended, capitalism does. Namely, for the benefit of his own self-image or wealth whether direct or indirect ownership of computers or the software that made computers the consumer platform that they became that he helped developed is not equally owned by the people who worked on it. The individuals working on Gates development of Windows - whether in the beginning or in the future Windows corporation - do not have ownership of the product they created, and ownership instead goes to the company or the boss; this is one of the fundamental three forms of alienation, the alienation of the worker from the product of his labor. While they are not being paid, the fact millions and millions still goes into the pockets of company bosses means that the individuals doing the actual work aren't getting the full value of their own ownership of the product by simply being there to work on it.

Extending the example, computers require semi-conductive materials that are not universally distributed. The main source for the materials needed are often sourced from third-world sources like the Congo, where proxy wars had been fought between the United States and Soviet Union for the country's vast mineral deposits required to build, operate, and maintain advanced equipment such as jet aircraft and computers. The people working these mines do not have ownership of their labor, easily even: they're not much better off than slaves. Being paid bare wages they get forced to dig up rare materials by bosses who take a large sum of the profit from the enterprise for themselves for little or no work themselves; they keep it on the merit that they're 'the owner' and often hire armed mercenaries to keep the miners from revolting.

The very fact these materials are so prized by high-tech first-world countries and are so valuable also means in times of Civil War these mines are prized by guerrilla factions who seize them and sell the product to the market which takes the materials and pays them to keep up the war.

Now, let's keep going: your sister in making jewelry must ultimately get materials that, like with the minerals of the Congo, are derived from the Earth. And is most often the case gold and silver must be dug up through the use of miners often paid menial wages, such as is most often the case in Southern America. Local miners go to work in a mine for low wages to dig up gold, facing extreme conditions jeopardizing their health and safety, being in contact with harsh polluting chemicals in the process, all to give it to their boss who sells the gold and keeps a vast majority the gold's value to himself. The miners do not own the gold, and as Big Bill Haywood said, "The mine owners' did not find the gold, they did not mine the gold, they did not mill the gold, but by some weird alchemy all the gold belonged to them!'"

The same pattern of alienation from the product of labor extends into the first world where while we have higher wages over all and a better range of benefits in support of the worker we do not often get full value for our work nor any sort of ownership. A man at Ford can't pick out a car of his choice and drive it off as is, despite having built so many cars for Ford he's certainly earned through labor the right to take one as he sees. But in the nuanced world of minimum wage and raising it forever, the end cost of a product will itself go up; lending in my mind a raise in minimum wage should be tied to a proportion of the shit done and income brought in.

This is of course not the only expression of exploitation through alienation, but it is the most handy.