Steve Conover on the Parasite Class

If we’re going to have a war, let’s do it right. The battle lines should be drawn orthogonally to the oversimplified “rich versus the rest.” A virtuous war would be one that rewards society’s honest earners and productive contributors, while punishing society’s predators, pirates, and parasites—all without regard to anyone’s income level. It is a target-rich environment that includes anyone (of any income level) who is cheating to win, any business or union (of any size) with its snout in the public trough, any politician filling that trough and feeding those snouts for reciprocal gain, and any group using the political system (at any level) to maintain its monopoly, or its winning “edge” against less-well-connected competitors.

The Class Warfare We Need

When I read this essay, I thought to myself, "Finally, someone else gets it."

I have written about the Parasite Class before. These are the people who function in our society not by producing value but from "getting over." For the parasites, economics is a zero sum game of winners and losers, and the parasites aim to be the winners. This would be the ladder climbing exec who knives his way to a promotion. This would be the crony capitalist getting sweet deals from his pals at Treasury and the Fed. This would be the lazy dirtbag who collects unemployment while always managing to never find a job. There are many mutations, but the underlying DNA of these parasites is identical. They all seek to live at the expense of others.

I am with Conover. It is time to go after the Parasite Class. They need to be eliminated.

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