Who voted for Bill Gates?

“Markets may look like democracy, in that we are all involved in their making, but they are fundamentally not democratic. We did not vote for Bill Gates; we didn’t all sit down one day and agree that we should only use his operating system and we should pay for it just however much he thinks is right. We do not go off to our jobs checking telephone lines or making cold calls or driving a forklift every morning because this is what we want to do; we do it because we have to, because it is the only way that we can afford food, shelter, and medicine. The logic of business is coercion, monopoly, and the destruction of the weak, not ‘choice’ or ’service’ or universal affluence.” – Thomas Frank, One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy (New York, NY: Doubleday, 2000), 86, 87.