Piketty is just another leftist loser from the world of academe who envies the wealthy. Like many other leftists, Piketty would like to be wealthy and famous...without working too hard that is. So ignoring the fact that many wealthy people worked harder and smarter than many non-wealthy people, he will make things fair for the non-wealthy.
In Piketty's wonderful world of equality, everybody will work just as hard. The poor and oppressed will work just as hard even though they will be handed a guaranteed income. And of course the wealthy will work hard so that their wealth can be taken away from them. Piketty's ideas are insane.
From the descriptions on ABC's morning show, his writing is more about the destruction of the middle class and how wealth flows upward. If he's opposed to the unsustainable concentration of wealth among the global elite, what he is saying can't be all bad.
Maybe we should leave the conclusions about what he's written to those who've actually read his book.