alt Hacker News>Most jobs do not consistent entirely of literally rent-seeking.
First off you're using "rent seeking" wrong, it's a specific economic term that means something else.
But using your definition....
There's entire industries built around renting capital investments. Sometimes purely, like rental equipment. Sometimes the investmentents are so expensive they come with the labor to operate them (the way many buildings have a building manager and a desk person). Many industrial transactions are structured basically the same way as commercial rent.
> First off you're using "rent seeking" wrong, it's a specific economic term that means something else.
It is a specific term, but it means: taking control of a limited resource (e.g. housing), most typically by ownership, that you do not have any direct use for, and then seeking revenue by then renting it to other people who actually want to use it (e.g. live in it).
Which, not suprisingly, is precisely what landlords are doing.
And also not surprisingly, those "entire industries" would be rent-seeking if the resources they rent out were limited. However, that does not apply to rental equipment, for example (though there are a few specific exceptions in the case of extremely expensive, very complex and/or very large equipment).