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Originally Posted by AltaGuy
I dated a member of the Rothschild family. Unfortunately not one of the uber-wealthy branches, but I went to some family gatherings and such. They're just people. People are not good at secrets.
But, now I'll put my tinfoil hat on with all y'all and note that WWII was so disruptive to entrenched capital that it allowed for a middle class to develop and flourish over the next fourty years in the Western world. Aside from that historical blip, capital tends to stay with the wealthy few.
Yeah, I just started reading Piketty. Pretty interesting stuff.
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Yeah, I was going to say that is Piketty. It's not tin foil stuff, it's the fact that 60 million people died, and most of Europe was bombed to rubble.