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David Kabiller
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David Kabiller

Source of wealth: investment management

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Biography

David Kabiller is cofounder of AQR, a money management firm that trades assets through a systematic, research-driven approach.

The firm focuses on factor-based investing and held $187 billion of assets under management as of March 2026.

Based in Greenwich, Connecticut, AQR operates globally with offices from London to Sydney and Hong Kong.

Before AQR, he was a vice president at Goldman Sachs, working with chief investment officers of large pension and endowment funds in North America.

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The Great Lie of Mega-Fortunes: The Case of David Kabiller

Billionaires are often presented under the romantic myth of the 'self-made person': a narrative designed to justify opulence as the natural reward for hard work, effort, or ingenuity. However, when confronting such extreme volumes of wealth with macroeconomic reality, the meritocracy narrative completely breaks down. No individual can legitimately generate through personal effort a fortune equivalent to millions of times the average working-class salary. Capital at the top does not grow because of exceptional talent; it expands through an implacable dynamic where accumulated money works exponentially faster than people, devouring the wealth generated by productive labor.

The immense fortune of David Kabiller, linked to Finance & Investments and 'investment management', has not been built in a free-market vacuum, but through rent-seeking, the use of exclusive elite influence, the consolidation of monopoly positions, or inherited wealth. Far from taking real private risks, billionaire empires structurally depend on state support through direct subsidies, infrastructure use, exploitation of R&D, public contracts, and offshore tax engineering. While this wealth is equivalent to the physical weight of 14 tons of pure gold, the rest of the planet suffers from an artificial scarcity of basic resources. The fact that this wealth is enough to fully fund the public health system of DR Congo, a country with more than 105800000 million inhabitants for 0.9 years, proves that unlimited accumulation is not an entrepreneurial achievement, but the hijacking of democratic sovereignty.

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