(n.) One who has capital; one who has money for investment, or money invested; esp. a person of large property, which is employed in business.
Example Sentences:
(1) The venture capitalist argued in his report, commissioned by the Downing Street policy guru Steve Hilton, in favour of "compensated no fault-dismissal" for small businesses.
(2) The shadow chancellor is an anti-capitalist John McDonnell , the new shadow chancellor , has been branded an anti-capitalist.
(3) Capitalist society disaccumulates as new productive forces emerge within the framework of the capitalist labor market.
(4) Among the horde assembled outside City Hall was teacher Lydia Harris, 27, who urged Boris to start “putting people before profits.” Harris, a member of the anti-capitalist collective Feminist Fightback added: “Boris has got to start helping others but then he’s lied before about rape crisis centres when he promised us money that never came.” Why march for homes?
(5) Many supporters are neither leftist, nor admirers of Syriza’s anti-capitalist rhetoric, but Greeks appalled by the catastrophic effects of policies that have left 1.5 million unemployed, 3 million facing poverty and the vast majority unable to pay their bills.
(6) However, the growing offensive against the left by the pro-capitalist wing of the Labour party inevitably had a damaging impact on the LPYS.
(7) Such a response is not surprising; it is rooted in the old Marxist belief that support for nationalist parties is driven by economic insecurity, and encouraged by capitalists who would prefer ethnic over class conflict.
(8) There is agreement among most left-wing and anti-capitalist campaigners that the demonstration before the funeral will be smaller than Saturday night's party.
(9) The paper explains how the contrasting view of the body and illness provided by the holistic model can help to show how Western medicine reflects the capitalist system in which it is promoted.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ever since Margaret Thatcher’s 1979 election victory, ‘Britain’s elites have relegated concerns about inequality below the existential question of how to restore our capitalist economy to economic health’.
(11) I would hope that a Labour party led by Ralph Miliband's son would recognise that, and be committed to ending the capitalist racket once and for all.
(12) Just before meeting the Observer , he hosted a wealthy venture capitalist seeking guidance on industry trends.
(13) In 1963 he was invited by president John F Kennedy to the White House and effectively recruited to the capitalist side in the cold war’s African battleground.
(14) San Andreas is a state of contrasts and extraordinary detail, there is always some interesting new nook to chance on, some breathtaking previously unexperienced view across the hills toward the capitalist spires of downtown.
(15) He also urged anarchists and radical anti-capitalist groups to stay away from mainstream protests by the trade unions, churches and charities being staged in Belfast on Saturday and Enniskillen on Monday.
(16) Last week, many took to the streets of San Francisco in support of Sanders, highlighting the widening gap between tech workers and their venture capitalist bosses.
(17) Drilling and polluting is what Shell does, and its corporate culture – honed in blackspots such as Nigeria and the Alberta tar sands – is still based on the old 19th-century explore-exploit-risk-reward capitalist business model that owes nothing to anything beyond the company.
(18) The 34-year-old venture capitalist is leading a group of investors in Lagos's first city railway .
(19) In the words of Andrew Shonfield: "It may be said that the intellectual and administrative preconditions for modern capitalist planning had been created, or were in course of being established".
(20) News of the second site emerged shortly after the clergyman at the centre of the dispute about anti-capitalist protesters camped outside St Paul's broke a week's silence to defend the decision to close the cathedral.
Rentier
Definition:
(n.) One who has a fixed income, as from lands, stocks, or the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) There is no longer a sharp dividing line between working and rentiering.
(2) Most rentiers are not as easily identified as the greedy banker or manager.
(3) Graeber discusses the role of a 1% parasitical rentier class presiding over an ever-increasing unequal social order and pinpoints the disappearance of opposing political systems and decline of oppositional movements as crucial factors in that process.
(4) From Wall Street to Silicon Valley , from big pharma to the lobby machines in Washington and Westminster, zoom in and you’ll see rentiers everywhere.
(5) If he is worried about banks over-lending to small rentiers, he should let the banks take the risk.
(6) Think back a minute to the definition of a rentier: someone who uses their control over something that already exists in order to increase their own wealth.
(7) But in the modern economy, making rentierism work is a great deal more complicated.
(8) Far from a Keynesian "euthanasia of the rentier" , we are seeing the triumph of a rentier economy: in such conditions, rather than further accumulation by the sons and daughters of the wealthy, we should instead demand an end to inherited wealth entirely.
(9) Many modern rentiers have convinced even themselves that they are bona fide value creators.
(10) That’s the rentier way : by leveraging control over something that already exists, such as land, knowledge, or money, to increase your wealth.
(11) The irony, however, is that their best innovations only make the rentier economy even bigger.
(12) Not much room for the PM to argue he’s not part of the “rentier” class.
(13) Meet the rightwing power players lurking beneath Silicon Valley's liberal facade Read more One thing is certain: countries where rentiers gain the upper hand gradually fall into decline.
(14) Even paragons of modern progress like Apple, Amazon, Google , Facebook, Uber and Airbnb are woven from the fabric of rentierism.
(15) Meanwhile, those same authorities prostrate themselves before luxury property developers, Chinese business conglomerates and buy-to-let rentiers.
(16) But as Thomas Piketty suggests in his study of inequality in the late capitalist age, there is something decidedly pre-modern about this phase neoliberalism, with its plutocrats, oligarchs and rentiers back in full swing.
(17) When a subsistence minimum is needed at every period of life, the rentier paradoxically is least risk tolerant in youth--the Robert C. Merton paradox that traces to the decline with age of the present discounted value of the subsistence-consumption requirements.
(18) There's no hit on inheritance and capital gains of the very comfortable; little will to ensure corporations pay more taxes; and no blows to the rentier class that exploits our housing shortage.
(19) He just wishes to provide a check on capitalism's tendency to create a useless class of parasitical rentiers.
(20) Wiener, like many a leftwinger, argued that this came from the English middle class's love affair with its betters, the usually fulfilled desire of every factory owner to become a country gent, a rentier rather than producer.