Makers Deserve Respect. Takers Don’t.

Hasan Piker is the “It Guy” in the left-wing media right now, and although he’s not a deep thinker or insightful person, a clip from one of his recent rants caught my attention:

In one sense, this is just standard, nonsensical socialist talk.

Jeff Bezos works hard, but nurses and teachers work hard, too. Okay, but so what? Work is one metric out of many that determines how much people get paid. If a streamer who put in 80 hours per week on his stream, but only had a hundred viewers, said that he and Hasan deserved to switch payouts because he worked harder, I think Hasan would suddenly tell you that how hard you work is no longer the only thing that matters.

Similarly, it’s true Jeff Bezos wouldn’t have been successful without the labor of others, but that applies to every one of us. Hasan didn’t build the Internet he’s streaming over all by himself. I didn’t build the road I drove on today. Nurses don’t build the hospitals they work in. Teachers don’t write the textbooks they hand out to their classes. Everyone, from the richest to the poorest American, is reliant on the labor of other people.

All of this is a transparent scam anyway.

It’s takers trying to get clout, money, and benefits off of something makers created. In this case, we’re talking about Jeff Bezos, the guy who created Amazon, one of the largest, most important, and most revolutionary corporations created in the history of planet Earth.

Meanwhile, Hasan Piker is an asshole socialist who talks up communist dictatorships, talks down America, calls for conservatives to be murdered, and is well known for shocking his dog to keep it in place as a prop for his stream:

Bernie Sanders is cut out of the same kind of cloth. He goes on and on about oligarchs, by which he means rich people who give money to Republicans instead of Democrats, and declares that takers like him can do better. There are dozens of examples of this we could give, but this one will do just as well as any other:

Just as a starting point here, Bezos is right.

For example, in NYC, where Ugandan communist Zohran Mamdani is threatening to confiscate buildings from “bad landlords,” over 50% of the housing isn’t allowed to be rented at market value because of “rent control” and “rent stabilization” policies.

So if you’re a landlord and you have expensive repairs, you may quickly get in a position where you either need to leave an apartment empty because you can’t profitably rent it (there are more than 50,000 like this in NYC) or you get into a Catch-22 situation where you need to make repairs, but you can’t afford to do so because you can’t charge enough to make the money back. Then, you get tagged as a slumlord, and the idea from there is that the government will take it over and everything will get better. Except, do you know who the biggest slumlord in NYC is? It’s the government of NYC:

This is how it always goes with takers. They know exactly how someone else’s money should be spent, but surprise, surprise, surprise, it always turns out to be on people or programs that benefit their side politically, and it never seems to work, thus necessitating even higher taxes on those bad old makers later on.

For example, in that tweet, Bernie Sanders is talking about all the great things he’d do with the money that would be collected with his wealth tax. He’s going to expand Medicare and guarantee childcare and raise teacher pay, and the government is going to personally guarantee everyone gets a pet unicorn, a brand-new Lambo, and a beachfront condo in Miami.

Yet, when you look at the details on what he wants to do with his wealth tax, the whole thing is insane. It applies to unrealized gains (if something goes up on paper, but hasn’t been sold), and it’s yearly. In other words, within a few years, it would make it impossible for someone like Elon Musk to own corporations at all because he’d end up having to sell them all to pay the taxes on gains he hadn’t actually realized in the real world.

And what kind of revenue would be raised by that? The Bernie Sanders estimate (which is almost certainly wildly high) is 4.4 trillion dollars over a decade, or 440 billion dollars per year.

But, you might say, “Wouldn’t it be worth it to do all that great stuff?” First of all, “No, it would not,” but look at this chart, and then we can address the real question:

If 440 billion dollars in spending will make the country into Nirvana, and we spent 7 trillion dollars in 2025, why do we need more tax revenue to get there? 7 trillion dollars should be enough to fix any problem that is fixable with money. On top of that, I bet if we just started shutting down government fraud, stopped wasting at least 100 billion (that may be way low) in money on illegal aliens each year, and stopped pouring money into useless projects like Gavin Newsom’s high-speed choo-choo to nowhere in California (over a hundred billion down the tubes so far), we could afford this. Why isn’t Bernie Sanders calling for that to be done? Because all of this is another taker scam.

Personally, I admire makers. I admire the people who create products, create a business, or bring something new and meaningful into the world. The people who change the way we think for the better, who come up with new and improved ways of doing things, the people who turn desert into farmland, vacant lots into parks, and empty lots into homes – those people are moving things forward for the human race in a way that matters. They’re turning their time, their skills, and their vision into something that betters the world.

Nothing is easier than sitting on the sidelines, holding your begging bowl out, and criticizing what those people are doing and how they live their lives. It’s easy to be a taker. It’s easy to be a critic. It’s easy to envy other people for what they’ve accomplished. Jeff Bezos created Amazon. Bill Gates created Microsoft. Steve Jobs created Apple. Those are real accomplishments that impacted the human race in a positive way. No taker will ever do that.

If Bernie Sanders, Hasan Piker, and Zohran Mamdani somehow created a new company that made enough profit to provide free childcare to everyone in America or raise teachers’ pay, I would at least RESPECT what they accomplished. They don’t think like that, though, because they’re takers. Takers want to loot people who actually make something and get credit for giving away things they never earned in the first place. They deserve no respect at all for that.

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