Indeed, the distribution of wealth is too important an issue to be left to economists, sociologists, historians, and philosophers.
Thomas PikettyI don't think there is any serious evidence that we need to be paying people more than 100 times the average wage in order to get high-performing managers.
Thomas PikettyI certainly agree that capital is not a one-dimensional object, and that the return on capital takes very different forms for different assets or different people.
Thomas PikettyWhat was the good of industrial development, what was the good of all the technological innovations, toil, and population movements if, after half a century of industrial growth, the condition of the masses was still just as miserable as before, and all lawmakers could do was prohibit factory labor by children under the age of eight?
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