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1104 pages, Hardcover
First published September 12, 2019
Still, for Piketty, as for many progressives, a state that is capable of social ordering and of redistributing private wealth is at the very center of their reform strategies. They assume something that would have to be first (re-)created for their ideas to work.
God called, 'Come to my feast.' Then what happened? Rockefeller, Morgan, and their crowd stepped up and took enough for 120 million people and left only enough for 5 million of all the other 125 million to eat. And so many millions must go hungry and without these good things God gave us unless we call on them to put some of it back. --Senator Huey Long, /Share Our Wealth: Every Man a King/, 1934. p. 564.
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23% …. 4% Sweden
35% … 11% Western Europe
48% … 22% U.S.
56% … 28% Brazil
64% … 30% Middle East