gwern comments on Open thread, July 29-August 4, 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 31 July 2013 11:21:44PM *  7 points [-]

Acquire as much capital as you can, presumably. If the share of economic growth for labor is falling, that of capital must be rising. The topic has come up before but I'm not sure anyone had more concrete advice than index funds - it's tempting to try to invest in software or specific tech companies, except then you're basically being a VC and it's very hard to pick the winners.

Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 31 July 2013 11:25:18PM 4 points [-]

Or land.