Technically, of course, President Obama's "you didn't build that" quote is correct. People don't live in vacuums. We all were helped by somebody, sometime, in some way.
Here's the point, though. What President Obama is saying is that successful people are not responsible for their success. That's his excuse, of course, for raising taxes on them. It's deeper than that, though. If you're not responsible for your success, you're not responsible for your failure, either. Successful people are not smarter, did not worker harder, did not see an opportunity others did not see. They just got lucky, while unsuccessful people were unlucky.
It doesn't stop with economic success, though. You're not responsible for anything that happens in your life. If your life didn't turn out so well, it's not because you made some bad choices and now have to deal with the consequences of them. You just got unlucky, while people whose lives turned out well got lucky. You're not responsible for who you are. You're not responsible for what you've done. It's all a matter of luck.
Therefore, government needs to take care of everyone. Because no one is responsible for themselves.
Obama: If You've Been Successful, You Didn't Get There On Your Own
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