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Even with a very fast rate of halving the population every generation, to effectively consolidate wealth then each generation has to not even spend most of the money they inherit. You need pretty huge amounts before that starts to happen, so the consolidation effect would be limited to a very small porion of the population. Are the set-for-life rich's birthrates even following the same trend?



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