A person or entity that provides little to no value while seeking to take/extract as much value from others; a burden on society as a whole.
Highly similar to a mooch or a leech, they thrive off owning something scarce that other people need; this provides a position of which negotiation is a mere formality.
Rent seekers are intrinsically "valued" more than a mooch or a leech though, prized by much of business and criminal culture for their innate ability to treat people like numbers and maximize cost to benefit ratios. For this reason, a "rent seeker" does not exclusively mean someone who literally owns property and seeks rent.
Highly similar to a mooch or a leech, they thrive off owning something scarce that other people need; this provides a position of which negotiation is a mere formality.
Rent seekers are intrinsically "valued" more than a mooch or a leech though, prized by much of business and criminal culture for their innate ability to treat people like numbers and maximize cost to benefit ratios. For this reason, a "rent seeker" does not exclusively mean someone who literally owns property and seeks rent.
"My landlord won't fix the hot water and is upping my rent anyways! But all the other places I check out are also moldy or broken and cost even more! Goddamned rent seekers!"
by Outline2163 February 3, 2023
Get the rent seekermug. this is a guy who is in his 20s who you may meet in a bar and think you can go home with him for free and then surprise, surprise! You find out you have to pay money to have sex with him! And not only that you have to pay money to his pimp as well, in order for him to get permission to leave the bar!
While on vacation I took a rent boy back to my hotel and paid him money to suck on my banana. (And boy, did he do a real fine job at it!)
by Bill Beef July 3, 2025
Get the Rent boymug. The way a friend (especially a more annoying one) earns your friendship for a period of time, usually with a good deed or a funny moment.
by Controller Rick June 26, 2022
Get the friend rentmug.