Everyone is reading Piketty wrong — including Piketty!
Want to really shut down the chief engine generating inequality? Forget the author's solution and do this instead
As everybody now knows, r>g. That is, under capitalism’s natural pressures, wealth tends to concentrate. We have a convincingly large data set to show it, thanks to Thomas Piketty, whose 700-page economics tome “Capital in the 21st Century” is beating out Colton Burpo on Amazon.
Capital assets (stocks, bonds, real estate, land, patents, &c.) yield returns (profits, dividends, inte
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