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April 30, 2015
Heinlein’s “Makers, Takers, and Fakers.”
Not all Makers produce tangible products. The humblest counter girl at a fast-food restaurant facilitates the provision of an objective good -food - to those who would purchase it. That gives her a claim on the title of Maker quite as valid as any farmhand or factory worker.Takers are persons unable or unwilling to produce or serve others.
They're sustained by the production of Makers; without Makers' largesse, they would perish. Not all Takers are willfully so; there are millions of persons unable through no fault of their own to support themselves by productive effort. But the great majority of Takers are not of that blameless sort.Fakers are those who pose as Makers but who are quite as parasitical as the willful worst of the Takers.
Politicians and their hangers-on are Fakers. As Sir Fred Hoyle wrote in The Black Cloud, we treat them as important because the newspapers say they are, whether explicitly or implicitly. Yet theyâre as helpless to sustain their lives by productive effort as any Taker. Liberty's Torch: What Will Follow
Posted by gerardvanderleun at April 30, 2015 5:14 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.