By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/08/2026In other words: for Bettencourt, doing *nothing at all* produced more wealth as *founding the most successful corporation in the world* did for Gates. Bettencourt, a person who *owned things*, did better than Gates, a person who *did things*. 13/ 127743
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/08/2026And then Gates retired. He stopped *doing things* and started *owning things*. He became an investor, whereupon he out-earned *both* Bettencourt and Gates-the-entrepreneur. 14/ 121518
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/08/2026Again, the market system allocated fewer rewards to the most successful person in the *doing things* business than it allocated to that same person once he quit that job and got into the *owning things* business. 15/ 122030
