At least a business owner (your “shopkeeper”) produces jobs and contributes to the GDP. You and your union buddies at the Post Office don’t do jack except suck billions from the taxpayers, year after year.
You, as a professional leech, have no clue how your host organism works, and I’m nt sure you really care.
Coupon clippers ~ buy bonds, collect interest, and make nothing.
We have a bunch of people on these threads that touch on economics who like to divvy the world up into makers and users. I just did that for you and now you gotta' vetch about it.
BTW, i make perfectly valid arguments that everybody, even those who just stand there sucking their thumbs, actually have something to do with pushing the economy ~ so whatta' ya' really want? Do you want somebody to tell you that no member of a union ever did anything productive?
Karl Marx divided work into two categories ~ that which involved making things, and that which was parasitical.
I"m not a Marxist but we keep hearing from them.
And you don't read well and your memory is failing. Never belonged to a union ~
BTW, the postal service doesn’t get billions from taxpayers. They charge postage and fees for services to rate payers. Their job is to move the mail. Shopkeepers manufacture nothing.