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Sometimes a taker who wishes they were a doer will occupy themselves with time-consuming tasks of no utility, tasks with no measurable result save using up time, no aim save to better convince themselves and their peers that they are a doer, [...] A taker has to have an elevated sense of self, enough that they can't see the implications of all their taking, they have to see it as political, as meaningful.