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Rent seeking extracts wealth without creating anything

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Why bother innovating when you can just rewrite the rules? Rent-seeking is the act of increasing one's own share of existing wealth without actually creating any new wealth in the process. It is the economic equivalent of taking a larger slice of a pie you didn't bake, often achieved by leveraging regulations to crush competition.

Rent seeking extracts wealth without creating anything
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