begets

It's terrifying because ill-managed prosperity begets scarcity and that begets fear and authoritarianism and war.

Patent trolling effectively begets more patent trolling, and everyone partaking of it should indeed be ashamed of themselves.

Any evolving ecosystem with a huge corpus of popular content begets terrific selection pressure against breaking backward compatibility.

Generally, the US tax code is designed in such a way that capital begets capital.

Victory begets enmity; the defeated dwell in pain.

); as higher (diversified) risk begets higher return, but the returns were also far more volatile.

There are hundreds of thousands of wealthy families in this upper crust and hundreds of millions of people churning in the domestic system that in part begets it.

It's the codification that begets the complexity.

This awareness begets usability and accuracy.

So fatherlessness begets fatherlessness.

I would tip my IT people if they did an outstanding enough job to warrant it, but it's hard to find anyone that doesn't live up past the stereotype - a self-reenforcing loop of bad wages begets bad service begets bad wages.

(Slow begets slower, blah blah, I don't want to hear it.

"Money begets money, power begets power." Society is full of self-reinforcing feedback loops like that.

Kathy Sierra in "Badass: Making Users Awesome" said: "An important, unconscious way to develop expertise is being around high-quality, high-quantity examples of expertise." The flipside is apparently true: exposure to mediocre examples begets mediocrity.

(Pedantry begets pedantry.) Overloading the term "drone" with all of the meanings above may not be optimal, but if enough context is given to roughly determine the class of drone under discussion then there is no reason to complain.

In part I suspect this is because some kinds of "work" are self-replicating (Java programming begets the need for more Java programmers...), but I nonetheless find myself fearing that my chosen "not work" is merely a fool's fantasy; and I occasionally have guilt complexes about "why am I not just learning JavaScript so I can at least get a gruntwork job at Rovio or somewhere"...