creator

It would be hard to argue that PG, for example, isn't a "job creator" -- or at least a wealth creator.

In this sense, an ordinary consumer is more of a job creator than a capitalist like me.

As a creator, as an entrepreneur, as a hacker, if you tear down Facebook you're just tearing down yourself.

And in this sense, calling ourselves job creators isn't just inaccurate, it's disingenuous.

For reference's sake, this article is written by Fabien Potencier, the creator of the symfony framework.

Copyright law says one thing, but at what point do we as humans say that the creator has died long ago, and his work should now pass to the public to retell as it sees fit?

Likewise, a policymaker who believes that the rich are job creators and therefore should not be taxed, will do equally terrible policy.

As a creator, as an business person and a hacker I would happily see facebook replaced by a company or an entity that gave us 80% of the functionality with our joint privacy in tact.

"Significant privileges have come to people like me, capitalists, for being perceived as job creators at the center of the economic universe, and the language and metaphors we use to defend the current economic and social arrangements is telling.

So, ladies and gentlemen, here's an idea worth spreading: in a capitalist economy, the true job creators are middle-class consumers, and taxing the rich to make investments to make the middle class grow and thrive is the single shrewdest thing we can do for the middle class, for the poor, and for the rich.

Indeed, a key aspect of copyright is precisely to encourage people to create - to invest the very blood and sweat that it often takes to do something great - in order that society generally will be enhanced and improved as creative works are done, are made available to the world as the creator may decide, and eventually pass into the public domain.

It's a small jump from 'job creator' to 'The Creator'.