Thomas Piketty is an author I knew nothing about. Thank you. And wealth distribution is certainly uneven here - and the gap is widening. Significantly.
Reminds me that I have attempted to read Mr Marx's actual Das Kapital about the same number of times as I have attempted to read Joyce's Ulysses, with the same lack of success each time - maybe three pages of each at most before the "why am I bothering to even try?" thought won. A failure of mine or a failure of the authors? Oh, and add what I must call Beckett's 'Waiting for God Knows What' to the list of my failures. Alice in Wonderland was good though.
Thomas Piketty is an author I knew nothing about. Thank you. And wealth distribution is certainly uneven here - and the gap is widening. Significantly.
ReplyDeleteIt was interesting to compare his thoughts with those of Hardt & Negri ("Empire").
DeleteReminds me that I have attempted to read Mr Marx's actual Das Kapital about the same number of times as I have attempted to read Joyce's Ulysses, with the same lack of success each time - maybe three pages of each at most before the "why am I bothering to even try?" thought won. A failure of mine or a failure of the authors? Oh, and add what I must call Beckett's 'Waiting for God Knows What' to the list of my failures. Alice in Wonderland was good though.
ReplyDeleteThat's life. No one knows whether a little more perseverance would have enabled him to broaden his horizons.
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