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>Well managers have lungs and brains and are nothing like mosquitoes; or
>are the panoply of coercive/manipulative behaviors human beings engage
>in mere epiphenomena in human history?
They have little or no ability to produce value on their own - they primarily depend on someone else doing it, but their ability to derive income comes from their strategic position that allows them to tap into the resources produced by others - just as the mosquitos do.
wojtek