It comes from the stock market. The primary source of financing communities, including small businesses and homes, is debt. It means that corporations can outgun communities in the political process, survive hard times, buy small businesses up cheap and attract our top talent. No neighborhood and no democracy consisting of about 63,000 neighborhoods can be healthy with this handicap. Performers are people who give more energy than they take.
Followers are people who take as much energy as they give.
Slugs are people who take more energy than they give. CIA drug traffickers are slugs. People who make money by rigging corporate profit with legislation that is bad for the taxpayers are slugs. Anyone can be a performer or a slug. We decide what kind of person we are.