[governance] NYT: Thomas Piketty and His Critics (long email)

Jefsey jefsey at jefsey.com
Thu May 15 19:02:09 EDT 2014


At 10:33 15/05/2014, michael gurstein wrote:
>In Piketty's view, the solution is a measure beyond the political 
>reach of any individual nation or international body, as they are 
>now constituted: a global wealth tax. Only such a tax "would contain 
>the unlimited growth of global inequality of wealth, which is 
>currently increasing at a rate that cannot be sustained in the long 
>run and that ought to worry even the most fervent champions of the 
>self-regulated market."

This tax has a name: inflation + wages proportional increases, the 
whole paid in bitcoins?
jfc 


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