Can I smooth your cat?

Ultimately, at the very end of the spectrum rent-seeking takes place in private social life, even though a delimitation critically depends on the society's 'subjective' definition of property rights and duties. It makes sense to define people begging on the street and knocking on doors as rent-seekers, in particular if they have opportunities to work.

Javert was the very incarnation of devotion to duty, fictionally, but he was an unstable character compared to some of our inspectioneers in government.

What's all this? Looks like Darth Vader's bathroom.