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Rentier capitalism, the term appropriate for describing the current phase of global capitalism, turns the precariat into debtors generating rental income, through rents and interest on student debt, credit card and store card debt, and short-term loans.
Guy Standing • The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class SPECIAL COVID-19 EDITION


The term used by Pareto to describe the other type, the rentier, is translated into English as the stockholder-though he sounds more like the bag holder to me. Such people, he says, are the routine, steady-going, unimaginative, conserving people, whom the speculator manipulates.
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What is capitalism but the overgrown trade union of the idle rich?
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The distinction Wark makes of the vectoralist class vs. the capitalist is its power not to actually own anything but to simply extract enormous profit from various flows of value.