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> What about those people who earn tons of money collecting economic rents on all the capital and other property they own? I love how all these revolutionary f
by mixedCase 10y ago
> What about those people who earn tons of money collecting economic rents on all the capital and other property they own?
I love how all these revolutionary fantasies always start with the same concept "these greedy capitalist pigs do nothing and get all the money!", as if everything was given to them to just profit from; and even if you want to play the inheritance card, as if their ancestors got the same benefit.
- chongli 10y agoI didn't say they do nothing, I said they don't work for it. Travis Kalanick is a billionaire but he didn't get that money by driving millions of people around in his own car; he paid people (with investor money, no less) to do it for him. You can talk all you want about the huge risk involved in growing a startup but guys like Kalanick will never end up on a street corner holding a filthy cardboard sign.