Dus de voorspelling van Piketty van nog grotere ongelijkheidsniveaus weerspiegelt niet de onverbiddelijke wetten van de economie.
Simple changes – including higher capital-gains and inheritance taxes, greater spending to broaden access to education, rigorous enforcement of anti-trust laws, corporate-governance reforms that circumscribe executive pay, and financial regulations that rein in banks’ ability to exploit the rest of society – would reduce inequality and increase equality of opportunity markedly.