Over a long period of time, the main force in favor of greater equality has been the diffusion of knowledge and skills.
Thomas PikettyWithout precisely defined sources, methods, and concepts, it is possible to see absolutely everything and its opposite.
Thomas PikettyWhen the rate of return on capital exceeds the rate of growth of output and income, as it did in the nineteenth century and seems quite likely to do again in the twenty-first, capitalism automatically generates arbitrary and unsustainable inequalities that radically undermine the meritocratic values on which democratic societies are based.
Thomas PikettyIndeed, the distribution of wealth is too important an issue to be left to economists, sociologists, historians, and philosophers.
Thomas Piketty