How to Earn a Billion Dollars

Re:How to Earn a Billion Dollars by twoodfin on Monday June 15, 2026 @07:17PM (#48548393)

If I spend 30 minutes this week looking at my investments, but a fund manager spends 60 hours, that’s a difference in quality and quantity not kind.

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Re:How to Earn a Billion Dollars by ForHackernews on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @06:50AM (#48553260)

Fund managers are paid to do a job by the owners of capital. Obviously that job is is work. The overwhelming majority of the gains accrue to the owners, and only a small fraction to the diligent fund manager who did the work.

Are you sure you tried to come up with a counter example?

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Re:How to Earn a Billion Dollars by twoodfin on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @08:42PM (#48579056)

Now you’re just question-begging.

If the only kind of “work” is “selling your labor” then sure, but I think a farmer tilling his own soil is “working”.

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