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发帖数: 38600 | 1 Capitalism has two sides, the productive side where people earn their income
and the parasitic side where the rentiers live off unearned income.
The Classical Economists had shown that most at the top of society were just
parasites feeding off the productive activity of everyone else.
Economics was always far too dangerous to be allowed to reveal the truth
about the economy.
How can we protect those powerful vested interests at the top of society?
The early neoclassical economists hid the proble... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 38600 | 2 The Classical economist, Adam Smith, observed the world of small state,
unregulated capitalism around him.
“The labour and time of the poor is in civilised countries sacrificed to
the maintaining of the rich in ease and luxury. The Landlord is maintained
in idleness and luxury by the labour of his tenants. The moneyed man is
supported by his extractions from the industrious merchant and the needy who
are obliged to support him in ease by a return for the use of his money.
But every savage has th... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 940 | 3 How can you be sure the 21st century is better than the slavery era?
Have you ever heard of neo-feudalism? Rentier state?
Do you have financial freedom now? Does the average working class and/or
middle class have any sort of financial freedom now? If not, are they freer
than the slave living centuries ago?
I bet you are brain washed enough to believe the average modern human being
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发帖数: 29846 | 4 Why Are Economists' Predictions So Damn Awful?
Economists have bought into the transitory soft patch thesis of the Fed,
hook line and sinker. Please consider Economists’ Forecast: Here We Grow
Again.
Forecasters in the latest Wall Street Journal survey estimated the U.S.
economy contracted at a 0.3% pace in the first quarter because of hits from
winter weather and the West Coast port slowdown. But the panel, on average,
sees annualized economic growth of 2.8% in the second quarter, supported... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 38600 | 5 America's Working Class
Exploited, powerless, rentier's cattle,
tattooed dimwits, cognitively awry,
TV-intoxicated, adrift in an opiate haze.
A ballooning military, monstrously large corporations,
the new Christo-America is crushing you. |
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发帖数: 1367 | 6 NYT上的书评，最近左派思想好像很流行。
College, the Great Unequalizer
By Ross Douthat
NO doubt by now you’ve finished last month’s assigned reading, Thomas
Piketty’s “Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” for our spring-semester
course on Stratification in America. I’m sorry about the length (and the
Amazon back-order problem), but I’m sure that the 696 pages of inheritance-
data analysis and émile Zola references flew by. And the good news is that
you don’t need to worry about the term paper, because my fellow E... 阅读全帖 |
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b*s
发帖数: 82482 | 7 管理层也是打工，除非是CEO那样的。最划算的是所谓的Rentier阶层，拥有大量资产，
收入完全从投资收入来，从来不用干活，而且交税也少……
那个Hugh Grant演的《About a boy》里面的那个混混就是这样的……
的时
实际
福利 |
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b*s
发帖数: 82482 | 8 有钱的精英分两类：一类是辛辛苦苦自己打拼的，一类是钱自己生钱，不用自己动手的
，马克思把第二类人叫做rentier class。这类人是有钱人里面的精英。你说的是有钱
人里面的吊死……
这不是花钱找罪受吗？
这些有钱的精英，白天在职场尔虞我诈，裁起人来杀伐决断，拆分企业信手拈来，卖起
车/保险来鬼话连篇，都是些杀人不见血的家伙。晚上还要看这些血腥暴力的东西，才
能休闲解乏？怎么看起来，和穷人吃肉，富人吃菜的理论相悖呢？
这个观众群值得考究。
BTW: BOS为啥每回贴都带两个贴呢？
HBO |
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b*s
发帖数: 82482 | 9 aspiring rentier……
阿童木是个好同学
可惜我没富呢，口味倒是很重了。。。
现在看那些不直见性命不一刀砍到骨头的温吞水就犯困 |
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