Wound are called a person living on income from rent, i.e. from capital received from interest on deposits, securities, business. But in the modern world, this is most often a person who receives income from rental property.
History
“Remove the investor and you will destroy the shadow in the social picture. Paris will lose its characteristic features. The observer (a kind of scribe tribe), wandering along the boulevards, will no longer see these humanoid fossils that go without moving, look without seeing, talk to themselves, silently moving his lips and spending about three minutes opening and closing the lid of his snuff-box - the observer will no longer see these bizarre silhouettes that fully justify the delightful cartoons of all Callot, Monier, Hoffmann, Gavarni and Gran viley "- once wrote about this social group, the French writer Honore de Balzac in his funny, satirical" Monograph on the rentier ". In it, on a fairly vast field, he describes who the rentier is, why and why: he classifies their habits, appearance and preferences. And it turned out from the classic that people are so-so - little people, lifeless, dull and loose creatures leading a joyless lifestyle.
