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"Over a long period of time, the main force in favour of greater equality has been the diffusion of knowledge and skills." - Thomas Pickety.

"Democracy will never be supplanted by a republic of experts -- and that is a very good thing." - Thomas Pickety.

"When the rate of return on capital exceeds the rate of growth of output and income, as it did in the nineteenth century and seems quite likely to do again in the twenty-first, capitalism automatically generates arbitrary and unsustainable inequalities that radically undermine the meritocratic values on which democratic societies are based." - Thomas Pickety.