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> the rent-seeking parties How do you think billionaires become billionaires?
by int_19h 27d ago
> the rent-seeking parties
How do you think billionaires become billionaires?
- ETH_start 27d agoMaking investments that produce a positive return, by supplying consumers with higher quality goods and services at a lower cost, is not rent-seeking.
- int_19h 27d agoThe investors don't manufacture those higher quality goods and services - their workers do. The investors collect economic rent from the worker's outputs.
- ETH_start 23d agoThe capital that the workers operate is an extension of the investor. The investor is an active participant making their capital available for the productive enterprise. And if the investors collect economic rent from the workers' output, then the workers collect economic rent every time an investor hires them for a project in which the investor loses money. But under the standard Economics definition of "economic rent", a positive investment return from a project in which a person risked investment capital and the worker provided labor in exchange for a guaranteed wage is not economic rent that was extracted by the investor.