Wyatt Ellis was right. The only other option is for producers to be de facto slaves.
If you look at history it is pretty frightening. The government looter class plays the nonproductive against the productive to get elected and to advance their hold on power. They often use the community organizer technique of rubbing raw the perceived wrongs that caused the nonproductive to be in their undesirable situation in life. But once the government looters get enough power to become tyrants, the nonproductive class becomes an unwanted burden and they are often eliminated.