Owen Jones interviews Thomas Piketty. Two things strike me as of particular note here. One is Pikettys remark about his global wealth tax proposals involving a conceptual shift from thinking of property as permanent to thinking of property as temporary - hence the talk of permanent revolution. The other is his remarks on inequality and the Middle East: The west’s general relationship with the Middle East – “the most unequal region in the world”, he says – is one that troubles him, not least because it exposes grotesque inequalities. “Take Egypt: the total budget for education for 100 million people is 100 times less than the oil revenue for a few dozen people in Qatar. And then in London and in Paris we are happy to have these people buying football clubs and buying apartments, and then we are surprised that the youths in the Middle East don’t take very seriously our democracy and social justice.”
Posted on: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 09:22:21 +0000
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