Assertion: capitalist | /r/CapableOf | earn net return
Facets:
value: on his wealth
type: OTHER
value: regularly
type: DEGREE
value: on his financial assets
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: For Böhm-Bawerk, the task of the interest theorist was to explain why a capitalist could regularly earn a net return on his financial assets, even though (unlike laborers) he apparently did nothing to "earn" this interest income.
text: Many economists would argue that, in the case of our tractor, the reason a capitalist earns a net return on his wealth is that the tractor is productive: After all, a farmer can harvest more crops, year after year, with a tractor than without one, and so naturally (these economists believe) someone who buys a tractor can earn an income over time.