[grania]

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.

[driftless2]

And I suppose I should have read Mein Kampf before I came to any conclusions about Hitler? Piketty isn't the first leftist to offer these kinds of tax-the-wealthy schemes. He's with the lefties who believe in the 1% crap. Like nobody has any money other than the 1%.

You want to hear some personal history? I come from a family seven kids. My father was the sole breadwinner, and my mother stayed home to take care of us kids. We were poor when I was growing up. Now, I have two sisters who are worth more than a million working for one of those huge, evil corporations. I have two brothers who are close to that or well-off. My wife and I are doing quite well despite both of us both of being near broke twenty years ago.

My brothers and sisters and my wife and I are hardly in the 1%. But we've done very well in this country. So have many millions of other Americans who grew up poor or with few resources. People like Piketty would like to wreck the system that made the average American more well-off than 99% of the world's population. So don't try to tell me a tiny pct. of the country have all the money. Because that's simply not true.