Sarcasm: We're so much better off

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I forgot I had started this Piketty discussion here. This thread has gone into the usual degeneration, so I’ll leave the conclusion over here:

Cracks in the Oligarchy?

It’s been on my list since it came out a few years ago, but just finished Thomas Piketty’s “Brief History of Equality”. I admit much of it flowed through my ears without being absorbed, but the last couple chapters offered solid ideas. Half way through Chptr 9, he points out the way our nation-states are organized leads to accumulating of riches. We assume relationships across nations will be based on a free flow of capital while laws created within nations only effect each individual nation. W…