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Saudi Arabia wants to move beyond its rentier welfare state, which, as of 2017, employed two-thirds of the country’s workforce.
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Bernard Haykel, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2024
The rentier reported higher revenue last quarter, up 7% from last year to $2.2 billion.
—Melvin Backman, Quartz, 6 Feb. 2024
As a result, the tech industry, seeking its own share of the rentier’s pie, would rather speak of novel public-private partnerships and unexpected insights garnered from parsing millions of private medical records.
—Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 28 May 2021
The roots of the economic crisis are complicated, but as Hannes Baumann explains in a recent paper, the Lebanese elite has for decades pursued a form of unproductive rentier capitalism.
—Ryan Cooper, TheWeek, 6 Aug. 2020
After describing his multiple homes, his yacht, and his private plane, Hanauer argued that the U.S. was at risk of becoming a neo-feudalist rentier society similar to France before the Revolution.
—Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 30 Dec. 2019
However, living in fear is to lose the battle to the neo-luddites and the rentiers reluctant to change the status quo.
—Anirudh Rastogi, Quartz India, 3 Oct. 2019
Decidedly less elite than the rentiers, they were attracted not by the potential to spend disposable income but by the natural canvas the region presented.
—James McAuley, Town & Country, 13 Aug. 2018
Idealistic token buyers speculated that their contributions represented a down payment on a new world of unfettered interpersonal exchange, one free at last from banks and other rentiers.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, WIRED, 18 June 2018
Bernard Haykel, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2024
The rentier reported higher revenue last quarter, up 7% from last year to $2.2 billion.
—Melvin Backman, Quartz, 6 Feb. 2024
As a result, the tech industry, seeking its own share of the rentier’s pie, would rather speak of novel public-private partnerships and unexpected insights garnered from parsing millions of private medical records.
—Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 28 May 2021
The roots of the economic crisis are complicated, but as Hannes Baumann explains in a recent paper, the Lebanese elite has for decades pursued a form of unproductive rentier capitalism.
—Ryan Cooper, TheWeek, 6 Aug. 2020
After describing his multiple homes, his yacht, and his private plane, Hanauer argued that the U.S. was at risk of becoming a neo-feudalist rentier society similar to France before the Revolution.
—Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 30 Dec. 2019
However, living in fear is to lose the battle to the neo-luddites and the rentiers reluctant to change the status quo.
—Anirudh Rastogi, Quartz India, 3 Oct. 2019
Decidedly less elite than the rentiers, they were attracted not by the potential to spend disposable income but by the natural canvas the region presented.
—James McAuley, Town & Country, 13 Aug. 2018
Idealistic token buyers speculated that their contributions represented a down payment on a new world of unfettered interpersonal exchange, one free at last from banks and other rentiers.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, WIRED, 18 June 2018
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rentier
noun
ren·tier
rän-ˈtyā, ˈrän-ˌtyā 
: a person who lives on income from property or securities
Etymology
French, from rente income from a property, rent
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