In reply to Dave Cumberland:
> No, it is not stupid or simplistic, and it is not judgemental on public services. It is called "the bottom line", and ultimately it is about living within one's means either in a family or on a corporate scale - all scales in fact.
"The bottom line" applies to single units of commercial activity, i.e. companies - society does not and cannot operate on the principle of "the bottom line". To think that it does is both stupid and simplistic.
It's quite an interesting question, philosophically, what "the bottom line" for society might mean. If you were to take the view that it's GDP, then you'd end up in a very very bad world - if GDP was the end in itself, we would just kill off anyone who wasn't contributing, i.e. the elderly, sick, etc. We don't do this, so obviously GDP is not "the bottom line", GDP is something we try to increase so that we can get some other benefit that is more important. This is, presumably, "wellbeing" - some measure of overall wellbeing is, I would conclude, society's "bottom line". But of course we don't or can't actually measure it, since the whole principle of the "bottom line" is erroneous here.
> Wealth creation is the oxygen for society.
That's a lovely sounding metaphor, but it doesn't actually mean anything. It's not information, it's just some words.
Wealth creation is one vital function in a capitalist society. But it's only one function. A society in which everyone fulfilled this function would collapse, because we also need public goods (and I mean that in the technical, economic sense) in order to have the infrastructure for society to exist. There is no wealth creation without infrastructure, the relationship is symbiotic: you can't have everyone just working on the provision of public goods because there'd be no money to pay for them, and equally, you can't have everyone in private enterprise because there'd be no roads or electricity.
> Please refrain from guttersniping and try and raise the level of the argument.
I don't know what you mean. Your position is really unclear and what I can make out just seems to be nonsensical - I'm trying to explain why.