Erik Torenberg

Author of a saved Aug 9, 2020 tweet thread (@eriktorenberg) that Kyle bookmarked: detailed book notes on Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century, walking through Piketty’s r > g inequality thesis, the rentier class, and proposed remedies. Torenberg closed the thread with his own view — that he was more excited about fixing wealth inequality “by enabling people to have equity in companies (perhaps by a token-like mechanism),” so people are directly and legibly aligned with economic growth (“Share the pie as you expand it”). The tweet is tagged to Kyle’s Capital Allocation portfolio idea.

Context: Erik Torenberg is a tech entrepreneur and investor — an early Product Hunt team member, co-founder of On Deck and Village Global, and a podcaster/media operator. This is general background, not stated in the source.

Where this appears

• Book Notes From Thomas Piketty’s… (tweet) — the author of the saved thread summarizing Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century and offering an equity-ownership take on inequality.