[fraac]

I wouldn't bother trying. I tell people I'm a proofreader. If I dressed less shabbily and shaved more often, I'd say air traffic controller.

Gamblers contribute nothing. Economics guy Nassim Nicholas Taleb disputes this, saying "gambling injects currency into economic life in the form of the expectation of future cash transfers and that, and not just narrowly defined 'productive' activities, may make the world advance."

Perhaps so, but I challenge any poker player to feel that. Drug dealers are more worthwhile members of society, in my opinion. They can at least choose the effect they have, for good or for bad, and feel it.