23 February 2016
rentier
[rahn-tyey]
noun, plural rentiers [rahn-tyey] (Show IPA). French.
1. a person who has a fixed income, as from lands or bonds.
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Contemporary Examples
Occasionally people accuse me of being anti-rich. I’m not anti-rich. Being rich is not inherently bad. I’m anti-parasitical crony capitalist rentier. The rich people that actually make a social contribution (paying their taxes, philanthropy, paying their workers a decent wage …) are deserving of praise, especially given that the crony capitalist system is clearly set up to reward the most ruthlessly self-interested in society (rentiers, tax-dodgers, reckless speculators, price fixers, Tory party donors, market riggers, money launderers …)
J.K. Rowling
Next, add the vices of a rentier state: laziness, irresponsibility, a sense of entitlement, and ignorance.
It’s Not the USA that Made Libya the Disaster it is Today
Ann Marlowe
August 2, 2014
Historical Examples
The one who has a perpetual income from bonds or rents is called a rentier.
The Principles of Economics
Frank A. Fetter
But did you see in the paper that he was put down as rentier ?
Plays–First Series
August Strindberg
My French friends wanted to talk of the “Psychology of the rentier.”
War and the Future
H. G. Wells
He gives himself the name of Piquouique, rentier, English; and he appeals to his Ambassador.
Old Friends
Andrew Lang
Today’s quote
You will always have some excuse not to live your life.
– Chuck Palahniuk
On this day
23 February 1836 – the Battle of the Alamo commences. It was a 13 day siege and a pivotal point in the Texas Revolution, in which Mexican forces attacked Texan forces stationed at the Alamo Mission. All 100 Texans were killed. Several months earlier, all Mexicans had been driven out of Mexican Texas.
23 February 1896 – the Tootsie Roll is invented.
23 February 1944 – the Soviet Union begins the forced deportation of Chechen and Ingush people from the North Caucasus to Central Asia.
23 February 1954 – Polio vaccines first become available.
23 February 1958 – Five time Formula 1 racing car driver, Juan Manuel Fangio, is kidnapped by Cuban rebels led by Fidel Castro. The Batista Dictatorship had established a non-Formula 1 race (the Cuban Grand Prix) in 1957, so the rebels were hoping to embarrass Batista by forcing him to cancel the race. The race went ahead and the captors let Fangio listen to it on the radio. Fangio was released unharmed. Castro’s forces overthrew Batista in January 1959 and cancelled the race that year.
23 February 1987 – the light from Supernova 1987A reaches Earth, 170,000 years after it exploded. The supernova was 1 million trillion miles away.
23 February 2010 – death of Cuban plumber and activist, Orlando Zapata. Zapata was arrested in 2002 by Cuban police for contempt. In 2003 he was arrested during a crackdown on dissidents, for undertaking a hunger strike aimed at securing the release of prisoners. He was sentenced to 36 years imprisonment. Amnesty International recognised him as a ‘prisoner of conscience’. In December 2009 he began a hunger strike which ultimately led to his death. Born 15 May 1967.