Sunday, May 08, 2005

The Productive vs. The Unproductive

The productive people who make progress possible are often painted as villains.

You say, "Williams, it would take an idiot to deny the human progress Americans made during the 20th century. What's your point?" The productive people who made this progress possible are often painted as villains. I'm talking about the innovators and the risk-takers, in a word -- entrepreneurs. Today's heroes are often seen as the people who attack entrepreneurs -- among them lawyers, politicians, media people, leftist organizations, college professors and others who often contribute little or nothing to human progress. My colleague, Thomas Sowell, calls the entrepreneurs, scientists and inventors the "doers" and their attackers the "talkers."

The next time we hear a talker attacking a doer, we just might ask: What have you done to further human progress?
The Productive vs. The Unproductive
Indeed.
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