Bằng cách bán cổ phiếu của mình ở một mức giá vượt quá một trong những ông trả tiền, triệu phú được sự khác biệt nếu có nhiều cổ phiếu là khá đáng kể. Mỹ pháp luật về thuế cung cấp mức thuế suất thuế thu nhập doanh nghiệp tối đa chỉ có 25% đối với thu nhập như vậy (được gọi là tăng vốn), một trường hợp may mắn cho các triệu phú nhưng không có nghĩa là tình cờ. Chia sẻ lợi nhuận thị trường chứng khoán và. | racy should be divided into rentiers and active participants jn management. Let us first examine the old core of the financial oligarchy. In the 36 families in this category we counted 135 adults who could engage in useful activity. Of them only 29 held posts connected with the management of their companies while the overwhelming majority 106 or about 80 per cent led a completely idle life or performed functions of general supervision and control over the activity of their managers. Thus the old plutocracy has been overwhelmingly turned into pure finance-capitalists. In the new plutocracy the picture is as follows. Of its 83 members 36 are still connected with company management while 47 are divorced from this activity. The degeneration of the recent big and even small capitalists and the acquisition by them of attributes of finance-capitalists are proceeding very swiftly. Some ten years ago entrepreneurs who were the top executives of their companies prevailed among the new plutocracy. Today almost 60 per cent no longer engage in this activity that is socially they have become entirely homogeneous with the overwhelming part of the old oligarchy. The remaining 40-odd per cent have to pass a relatively short path. What is interesting is that this conversion proceeds at a very fast pace and is achieved within the lifetime of one generation. Thus Mills s thesis that idleness is not a characteristic feature of the multimillionaires could be applied only in part to the new plutocracy but it is absolutely wrong as regards the old core . At the same time there is no serious basis for any fundamental differences in the position of these two strata of the financial oligarchy. As their wealth grows the newcomers increasingly merge socially with the old core . A distinctive feature of the old plutocracy is that its capitals long ago became fully intertwined with and integrated into the main financial groups. Some of the biggest fortunes have served as the basis for forming .
