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This is an astoundingly bad take. Knowledge workers don’t passively gain money by holding a productive asset - they WORK. It’s in the name.

The fact that you do not understand anything besides physical work as work is perplexing and, honestly, pathetic. It smacks of someone who has failed to make a life for themself, and is lashing out at anyone who is a viable scapegoat.

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It is not true that you don’t gain money passively by doing knowledge work. Some knowledge work is very involved yes, like a hybrid between physical and mental labor.

But there is some knowledge work where you are simply being paid in case people need you a small % of the time, and most of the time you’re not doing much or very trivial tasks. Like a consultant.

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