wealth inequality

The rise in inequality is the product of a vicious spiral: the rich rent-seekers use their wealth to shape legislation in order to protect and increase their wealth – and their influence.

不平等情况的恶化是恶性循环的结果：富有的寻租者利用他们的财富左右立法，以保护和增加他们的财富&及影响力。

The wealth inequality prediction extrapolated results from the annual Credit Suisse global wealth report in an effort to focus attention on the more than a billion people in the world living in absolute poverty, those with incomes of less than$ 1.25 a day.

上述财富不平等预测是在瑞信（Credit Suisse）年度全球财富报告结果的基础上推算出来的，目的是推动世人关注世界上生活在绝对贫困（每天收入不到1.25美元）中的超过10亿人。

Under such situation, how should we understand the problem of global wealth inequality?

在这个新的世界形势下，我们应该怎样理解全球贫富悬殊的问题呢？

When inequality of wealth once commences, in a community not constantly engaged in repairing by industry the injuries of fortune, its advances are gigantic; the great masses of wealth swallow up the smaller.

一个社会一旦开始有了财富的不平等，而又不靠发展产业来弥补对财富造成的损失，这种不平等就会愈来愈巨大，吞并会愈演愈烈。

Piketty's main assertion is that the leading driver of increased inequality in the developed world is the accumulation of wealth by those who are already wealthy, driven by a rate of return on capital that consistently exceeds the rate of GDP growth.

皮克提的主要观点是，发达国家贫富不均加剧主要是由富人的财富积累导致的，这受资本的投资回报率要长期高于GDP增长率所驱动。