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What I learned from Thomas Piketty Capital in the 21st Century (and Floyd Mayweather)

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In most of history and most countries, the top decile owned most of the total wealth. This could be assumed as a constant of societies. Governments and laws of course play a role in smoothing out the distribution to make it fairer, but the scope of its impacts in my opinion will stay limited. What you can do instead is to Become So Good They Can't Ignore You (Cal Newport). I highly recommend reading Cal Newport's books: Become So Good They Can't Ignore You and Deep Work. You can check his blog here: https://www.calnewport.com/blog/ You can check Thomas Piketty blog here: https://www.lemonde.fr/blog/piketty/category/in-english/

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In most of history and most countries, the top decile owned most of the total wealth. This could be assumed as a constant of societies. Governments and laws of course play a role in smoothing out the distribution to make it fairer, but the scope of its impacts in my opinion will stay limited.

What you can do instead is to Become So Good They Can't Ignore You (Cal Newport).

I highly recommend reading Cal Newport's books: Become So Good They Can't Ignore You and Deep Work.

You can check his blog here: https://www.calnewport.com/blog/

You can check Thomas Piketty blog here: https://www.lemonde.fr/blog/piketty/category/in-english/
Thomas Piketty
Thomas Piketty (7 May 1971) is a French economist who works on wealth and income inequality. He is a professor (directeur d'études) at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), associate chair at the Paris School of Economics and Centennial professor at the London School of Economics new International Inequalities Institute.

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