what's clearest term to distinguish businesses that actually make things and provide services and... [View all]
those that make their money primarily from financial sleight of hand?
It's funny that most of our terms for non-state owned business either emphasize the money manipulators like "capitalism" and "free market" or are vague enough to include finance with businesses that do actually provide a real product or service like "free enterprise."
It's a distinction that could be a big help in convincing others we need to rein in the financial sector further and remove it's sociopathic claws from the levers of power without sounding like Stalinists planning the take over of all business.
There is probably already a perfectly serviceable word, but since I'm not a business major or economists, I don't know it.
What exists or if it doesn't exist, what should the term be?
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