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- noun Plural form of
non-producer .
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Examples
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Government don't create wealth, they only destroy it by taking from the producers to give to the non-producers.
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A bunch of lazy non-producers that have sent their countries into a death spiral of apathy because government is giving them anything.
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Unions are killing this country through inflated wage scales and benefits packages as well as their stubborn refusal to get rid of the low-life non-producers.
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Credits, credits and more credits: Producers taking credit for things they may or may not have done, and non-producers getting credit for things they wouldn't begin to understand how to actually do.
Rick Schwartz: An Insider's Guide to Movie Credits Rick Schwartz 2011
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This is unbelievable what is going on, rewarding non-producers and penalize the achievers.
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A higher percentage of speculators or other non-producers in the market isn't likely to widen price swings in an already-volatile market, analysts say.
Natural-Gas Producers Lose Profit Protection Matt Day 2011
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And how rude of them to be altruistic — it shames the non-producers of the world!
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Radical economic stratification (hoarding of wealth in the hands of non-producers while impoverishing the producers of wealth – basic Capitalism-101) led to an untenable situation that had only grown worse over the decades of repeating recessions and depressions.
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As opposed to assorted hacks and ranters, nameless victims, knuckleheaded upholders of the rule of law, friends of Jonathan King and fellow non-producers of great art.
Polanski's 'genius' is only a defence to the morally vacuous 2010
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One argument against this conclusion is that increasing numbers of workers, involuntarily displaced by technological advancement and other economic developments, qualify as "non-producers" who have no share in the wealth and power generated by production.
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