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title: "\"This isn’t rent-seeking or rent-extraction, but something entirely new: the…"
date: 2025-02-10T18:57:53.000Z
author: Ricardo Mendes
url: https://rmendes.net/notes/2025/02/10/this-isnt-rentseeking-or-rentextraction/
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# "This isn’t rent-seeking or rent-extraction, but something entirely new: the…

"This isn’t rent-seeking or rent-extraction, but something entirely new: the privatization of progress itself." 

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