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 ~
is convenience a thing? is knowledge employed to provide a service a thing?
i submit that your definition of what constitutes value is
somewhat simplistic.