What Is The Worker Investor?
The Worker Investor begins by rejecting a false choice. We are often encouraged to imagine that a worker and an investor are two completely different kinds of people. A worker sells time, completes assigned tasks, receives a salary, and lives inside an institution. An investor owns assets, allocates capital, and benefits from systems that can continue operating without his or her direct labor. For most people, however, the transition is not so clean. We do not stop being workers one day and become investors the next. We still need salaries, professional skills, institutions, colleagues, and the structure that work provides. The more realistic question is whether a person can remain a worker while gradually learning to think and act like an investor. ...