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Capital in the Twenty First Century

Book by Thomas Piketty · 2 quotes · Capital, Inequality, Economics

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“Бідні наздоганяють багатих тоді, коли вони досягають такого ж рівня технологічних знань, кваліфікації та освіти, а не за рахунок перерозподілу власності.”

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“Our democratic societies rest on a meritocratic worldview, or at any rate a meritocratic hope, by which I mean a belief in a society in which inequality is based more on merit and effort than on kinship and rents. This belief and this hope play a very crucial role in modern society, for a simple reason: in a democracy, the professed equality of rights of all citizens contrasts sharply with the very real inequality of living conditions, and in order to overcome this contradiction it is vital to make sure that social inequalities derive from rational and universal principles rather than arbitrary contingencies. Inequalities must therefore be just and useful to all, at least in the realm of discourse and as far as possible in reality as well.”

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