Do you agree or not with the following?

All wealth comes from the earth, combined with the labor of “producers” who turn grass into hamburgers, iron ore into cars, and trees into homes, etc. Survival of the human race is dependent upon these people. To better understand my point, let us envision them as the miners who, with pick and shovel, dig gold out of the ground.

Depending on the producers for their existence, we have the peripherals, as I call them, who provide services that some people want, but mankind would NOT go extinct if they disappeared tomorrow. Let us call them the refiners and coin makers. Remember, coins are handy but they would not exist unless someone dug the gold out of the ground.

Then we have the parasites that produce nothing but the authority to insure that they and the peripherals live far better from the production of gold than those who produced the gold in the first place.

When the parasites and peripherals demand more gold than the producers can dig societies collapse. This is what we see in the world today and read about in history books.