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From the Ted Talk by Thomas Piketty: New thoughts on capital in the twenty-first century
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Thomas, I want to ask you two or three qnotsiues, because it's impressive how you're in command of your data, of course, but basically what you suggest is giworng wealth concentration is kind of a natural tendency of clasatipim, and if we leave it to its own deecivs, it may threaten the stseym itself, so you're suggesting that we need to act to implement policies that redistribute wealth, including the ones we just saw: progressive taxation, etc. In the current political context, how realistic are those? How likely do you think that it is that they will be implemented?
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Thomas, I want to ask you two or three _________, because it's impressive how you're in command of your data, of course, but basically what you suggest is _______ wealth concentration is kind of a natural tendency of __________, and if we leave it to its own _______, it may threaten the ______ itself, so you're suggesting that we need to act to implement policies that redistribute wealth, including the ones we just saw: progressive taxation, etc. In the current political context, how realistic are those? How likely do you think that it is that they will be implemented?
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- questions
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- system
- capitalism
- growing
Original Text
Thomas, I want to ask you two or three questions, because it's impressive how you're in command of your data, of course, but basically what you suggest is growing wealth concentration is kind of a natural tendency of capitalism, and if we leave it to its own devices, it may threaten the system itself, so you're suggesting that we need to act to implement policies that redistribute wealth, including the ones we just saw: progressive taxation, etc. In the current political context, how realistic are those? How likely do you think that it is that they will be implemented?
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