빌 게이츠 대 토마 피케티

빌 게이츠 대 토마 피케티   매주 금요일마다 찾아오는 Joy of Reading! 영어 읽기의 즐거움을 느껴 보세요.   <Bill Gates v. Thomas Piketty> Gates argues a number of points. He believes that Piketty does not focus enough on consumption inequality — fair enough, though the book is about wealth inequality — and that he does not differentiate between the good rich investing in businesses and the bad rich simply consuming their wealth. Moreover, he argues that we have not reached a state of old-world dynastic wealth and that philanthropy might be a powerful force for dissipating concentrated fortunes from generation to generation. “I fully agree that we don’t want to live in an aristocratic society in which already-wealthy families get richer simply by sitting on their laurels and collecting what Piketty calls ‘rentier income,’” Gates writes. “But I don’t think America is anything close to that.”   -http://nymag.com/     어휘 argue 주장하다, 논증하다 inequality 불평등 fair enough (생각이나 제안이) 괜찮다 differentiate 구별하다 old-world 옛날식의 dynastic wealth 세습적 부 philanthropy 자선 활동 dissipate 소멸시키다 from generation to generation 대대로 aristocratic 귀족적인 laurels 월계관 rentier 금리 생활자