On: How to Get Rich (2019)

[janef0421]

If wealth is assets that produce income for me without doing anything, then, logically, either someone else is doing work for which I receive some portion of the income, or I am benefitting from inflating asset prices, which make it harder for others to purchase those assets. This is socially unproductive and I have no real interest in it.

[ac29 → janef0421]

Assets that produce income aren't acquired for free, so you are doing something (exchanging money for assets). That is absolutely productive.