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plural rentiers
An individual who receives an income, usually interest, rent, dividends, capital gains, or profits from his or her assets and investments. quotations examples
If today’s capitalists are mere lazy rentiers who contribute nothing to the production process, don’t they deserve to be downgraded to the status of feudal landlords?
2022 April 13, Evgeny Morozov, “Critique of Techno-Feudal Reason”, in New Left Review, number 133/134, pages 89–126