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People in charge exploiting their positions for easier lives and passing privilege to friends and children.
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rent-seeking behavior
People in charge exploiting their positions for easier lives and passing privilege to friends and children.
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Using a power position or credentialed gatekeeping role to extract wealth from others.
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Creating a specialized system only one's group can use so others must pay for access.
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The attempt to consolidate capital, create monopoly-like control, and charge rents instead of creating new value.
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"...what happens is the people in charge start engaging in rent -seeking behavior."
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"They take advantage of the position in order to make their life easier. And then they pass on this privilege to their friends and..."
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"...the managers really do is something called rent seeking business. Rent seeking behavior. Okay? Rent seeking behavior just means they have a certain power..."
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"You can work in the court system. So, if you want to sue someone or if you have a contract dispute, you have to..."
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"All right? And this is what we call rent -seeking behavior. You create something that only you can use. And people have to pay..."
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"...make more money that way. That's something we call rent -sinking behavior. Rent -sinking. Native rent -sinking is to create a monopoly which forces..."
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"...And the, the problem is, they engage in something called, rent, seeking, behavior. All right? I want you guys, to remember this term, rent,..."
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"...It turns out, the elite, mainly, make their money, through, rent, seeking, behavior. So, let me give you, another example, of rent seeking behavior...."
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"...Okay? Does that make sense? This is what we call, rent seeking, behavior. Now, you're like, okay, well, this kind of sucks. Okay? And..."
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"...management deans administrators managers boom okay boom this is called rent -seeking behavior this is people in power take advantage of their power to..."
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"...more and more children, and these children are engaged in rent -seeking behavior, they basically want to steal profits from the corporation."
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"...system, what often happens is that the nobility engage in rent -seeking behavior. Basically, they exploit the peasants. And that's fine if the weather..."
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