Re:How to Earn a Billion Dollars
by smallmancontrov on Sunday June 14, 2026 @08:46PM
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Growth rates are central to wealth inequality: the r>g observation (due to Piketty, Capital in the 21st Century) is that both historically and recently the returns to capital exceed the growth rate of the economy. Trusting someone whose fortune was built on "r" and is staked on "r" to do anything other than cheer-lead his own balance sheet would be nuts. Hear him out, but please hear what Piketty (& fiends) have to say as well.
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> (& fiends)
Freudian slip?
Re:How to Earn a Billion Dollars
by smallmancontrov on Sunday June 14, 2026 @11:00PM
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Ha! Red suits them.
> the r>g observation (due to Piketty, Capital in the 21st Century) is that both historically and recently the returns to capital exceed the growth rate of the economy.
They do if you cherry-pick your economies, starting points, definitions of "capital" and "growth", and cutoff points, yes.
Re:How to Earn a Billion Dollars
by smallmancontrov on Monday June 15, 2026 @02:06PM
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You have to cherry-pick a lot harder to make r>g go away.
Plotting it vs time makes this clear because you can clearly see what caused what.
Re:How to Earn a Billion Dollars
by justincarter on Monday June 15, 2026 @06:54AM
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Yes, I agree. The combination of minimal inflation and extremely low interest rates is not something pg created, but something he did benefit from, and he doesn't seem to realize that.