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
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/08/2026Piketty shows that this holds true across markets and nations and eras: all other things being equal, the market system produces a class of hereditary aristocrats who command the world's capital and direct its deployment, despite never having *done* anything. 16/ 229386
