The workers who make them. They also provide everything else. And they pay for it all too, plus a healthy premium, with the money they earn by that work.

Everyone else is just a middleman, who AT BEST, provides some administrative or accounting function. At worst, they're simply trolls controlling some financial gate in the economy where they collect a toll from all who pass by on the way to work.

I'm not arguing that free markets should be substituted for by government monopolies. I never mentioned anything of the sort. That is not what I'm talking about. But you keep monotonously bringing it up, even when we are talking about something totally different. What are you trying to distract us from? The idea that the only way some of us are going to get everything we want is for the rest of us not to get everything we need? Most of us are already resigned to that.

Your answer to every social issue and question is "leave us alone, we know best, you don't know what you're talking about." Well we tried that, remember, and guess who's funding the bailout now?