Cory Doctorow on Nostr: That's what r > g means: that even the most successful worker in human history can't ...
That's what r > g means: that even the most successful worker in human history can't make as much as person who merely has a lot of money, and the more money you have, the more money you make.
If you think about this for a second, you can see how it'll play out: in economies both good and bad, the people who emerge from lucky orifices will get wealthier than anyone else, wealthier than the people who do things that grow the economy.
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