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by ebspelman 3236 days ago
Yeah, I spent a few minutes going over the last sentence in tengbretson's comment.

I would actually recharacterize Piketty's (and the author of this chart) argument as:

"X increasing is a symptom that Y is increasing. Let's implement policy A. This may temporarily increase X, but it will stop Y from increasing, which will in turn stop X from increasing in the long run."