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That's a rather low bar.

Scamming people can also put food on your table. Stealing can put food on your table. Neither is particularly productive.

But then we get to hire policemen and prison wardens!

> it's creating wealth, companies, & jobs

based 100% on people trying to make a quick buck, and not based on solving a problem virtually anyone actually has.

by this bar, Dutch tulips in the 1600s were also extremely productive

It's fine that you have that definition. And certainly I can understand why you want the words to mean that. But that's just not what a 'productive asset' is. You can have your own language, and that's cool, but creating your own definitions to invalidate someone else's use of that word is just ridiculous.

People are doing the same for the IRS scams that pop up around tax time, too.