leeches

Relax standards far enough and you're back to the era of shamans, leeches, or patent tonic charlatans.

And a quite a lot of people presenting themselves that way will be various leeches and vultures.

All the blood-sucking leeches are there (the government, banks, and the building itself) plus one more blood-sucking leech: the landlord.

That Network Solutions leeches queries and then charges $34.99 per year for registration is also insane.

Just think about the sort of financial leeches that a situation like this attracts.

Why should banks otherwise forsake the profits from their mortgage on 98 leeches?

You can't eliminate leeches from society, but you can minimize their economic impact.

And leeches, as a medical cure-all, are probably more harmful than sugar pills.

I think the idea of 80% leeches living off the 20% productive is just wrong headed.

So people that make use of Open Source software are Leeches now?

That is, the characters sought excellence in themselves and appreciated it in others, while holding those who were leeches on their achievements with disdain.

In reality this could be he's not pushing too hard so much as the existing environment which leeches effort and adds burden to every step.

It has a large, pre-populated (but configurable) list of "distracting" sites, so it's amazingly effective (probably > 95% accurate in my experience) at blocking the productivity leeches while letting useful stuff (like reference websites) through.

Edelson, Sam Altman, president of Y Combinator, a technology incubator that invests in very young companies, said the lawyer was regarded as “a leech tarted up as a freedom fighter.” I guess that means even leeches have their societal uses.

After Elon said "fuck it" and built his own rocket motors after getting screwed by the Russians, I don't see him wasting any time with politics or property development (who I'd argue would be leeches/vultures trying to extract their tax on the project).

Leeches = anyone that inserts themselves into the process without adding meaningfully to the quality of care provided.

Getting insurance companies out of the game (the BIG Leeches, in your example, who take 20% of the dollars in the system) would go a much longer way.