[cryoshon]

i really wish people would just read some pikkety, which explains conclusions like the above.

the movement of wealth has a speed and a vector. all wealth moves along the path of least resistance, which means wherever it can move at high speed.

the more wealth at one node (an individual) is concentrated, the faster wealth moves toward that node, and thus it follows that the faster wealth moves toward one node the slower it must subsequently move in all future directions because there are substantially fewer people who have even greater wealth than the node. this means that all capital flows ultimately point to the richest of the rich, although there are a lot of other rich people who are enriched along the way.

rents are just a steady drumbeat of wealth moving from those with the least wealth of all nodes (proliterians) toward the middle or higher rung of nodes.

"unearned" is the wrong word. "structurally guaranteed" is a better term.