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# Self-Made Man
- URL: https://www.andyposner.org/self-made-man/
- Published: 2020-05-24T02:02:03.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-15T05:03:07.000Z
- Description: I hire the police that protect my home from the hordes that would tax me: I need nothing from the State, and so give nothing to the State.
- Author: Andy
- Tags: America on the Brink, poetry, Politics, America, #Migrated-1784090317409, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-07-15 04:39

I was raised by wolves who gave me just enough to survive.  
I am the uber autodidact:  
I built the school where I taught myself  
economics, built a factory—and the roads  
leading to the factory—where I alone  
made my fortune. I am a self-made man.

When my factory caught fire, I put it out myself.  
I hire the police that protect my home from the hordes  
that would tax me: I need nothing from the State, and so  
give nothing to the State.

After I die, my employees, and the countless  
recipients of my charity,  
will bemoan that they aren’t also self-made;  
they will accept their poverty and continue to work for  
and admire my son,  
whom I have raised like a wolf to be a self-made man,  
to carry on my legacy.