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kleinbl00  ·  3495 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What your 1st-grade life says about the rest of it

That's pretty much the core political struggle of the past 150 years. It's also the reason the Bloomberg set hates Piketty so much - he lays out the numbers in simple math (barely scratching algebra) to say "look - if you have a lot of money, a lot more money is easy. If you have a little money, a lot of money is almost fucking impossible."

It's gonna be a hell of a PR campaign. Funny thing is, most of Piketty's fixes are easy: kill anonymous numbered off-shore accounts (which account for up to 40% of world GDP in a completely untaxed, unaccountable way) and bring inheritance taxes back up to pre-war levels. I really do think the former is easily attainable and the latter is a fight that can be won.