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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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