Now, the second fact is more about wealth inequality, and here the central fact is that wealth inequality is always a lot higher than income inequality, and also that wealth inequality, although it has also increased in recent decades, is still less extreme today than what it was a century ago, although the total quantity of wealth relative to income has now recovered from the very large shocks caused by World War I, the Great Depression, World War II.
Sad, druga se činjenica više bavi nejednakošću bogatstva, a ovdje je središnja činjenica kako je nejednakost bogatstva uvijek puno viša od nejednakosti dohotka, te također kako je nejednakost bogatstva, iako jest porasla u zadnjim desetljećima, danas ipak manje ekstremna nego što je bila prije stotinu godina, iako se ukupna količina bogatstva u usporedbi s dohotkom sada oporavila od vrlo velikih šokova uzrokovanih I. svjetskim ratom, Velikom gospodarskom krizom, II. svjetskim ratom.