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> I don't see why rent capture generally has such a negative connotation outside of finance circles.

Well, it violates a lot of views of how the market "should" operate, on both the left and the right. On the right, some simplified versions of free-market views assume relatively perfect, efficient markets will normally develop absent government distortion, so they're suspicious of areas where rent is being extracted as probably due to some kind of intervention preventing a proper free market from operating. And on the left, many see rent-extraction as a paradigmatic example of the power of capital relative to labor (the ability of passive rent-extractors to in effect collect a "tax" from active economic activity).




people who do not own "rent producing assets" have a bias towards those who do, because a "rent producing asset" is something that gives the owner money, without the owner producing value, other than making the asset available. It is basically a facet of jealousy if you ask me...




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