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。

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。

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？

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。