Rent-seeking: Difference between revisions

{{g}}{{a|tech|}}[[Rent-seeking]] is the Marxist (ooh! saucy!) term when a fellow (a “[[rentier]]”) monopolises access to [[property]] (notably including, for modern readings, [[Intellectual property|intellectual]]) and gouging profits out of it. Rather than the fruits of your blood, toil, tears and sweat you use the no-longer-fit-for-purpose<ref>{{author|Lawrence Lessig}}’s {{Br|Code: Version 2.0}} is a compulsory read.</ref> [[intellectual property]] rules to gouge everyone else.