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Being financially stable enough to survive comfortably on a part-time job & having enough leisure time to do anything well isn’t capital intensive?
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I’m beginning to think lack of capital is not really a factor stopping people from doing the things they feel they were meant to. Most people don’t have capital-intensive imaginations. If you give most people a lump sum the best idea they’d likely come up with is buying a house.
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Not to mention the sneering attitude towards buying a house. Heck yes I’d buy a house! Doing that would eliminate my single largest monthly expense.
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Most who manage to get to the top still have weak capital-intensive imaginations. Basic survival is best addressed by income, not capitalization. It’s opex not capex. Student loans are the exception. There’s a word for turning survival problems into capital investments...
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I think you are letting your politics make your economics unnecessarily murky. It’s fine if you want to score political points, but that’s not a helpful way to think of capital and investment at Econ 101 level.
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I honestly agree there’s something I’m not getting here. If I didn’t have to sell my labor there are a hundred things I would like to study and create (="things I feel I was meant to do.") But lack of capital isn’t an obstacle for me because…why, again?
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Money can act as capital but doesn’t always. You can take student loans if you feel you can make enough to repay them and keep the benefit of learning. That’s money-as-capital. Or a startup investment. But just living on it without a return is just expenses burning down capital.