Looming Larger: Wealth Grows with Technology, But the Rich-Poor Gap Widens
Without external control, the natural tendency of human society is to diminish what is insufficient and augment what is already abundant. The gap between the strong and the weak tends to widen naturally. In ancient agrarian societies, this manifested as the consolidation of land—land being the primary means of production. In modern commercial societies, it translates into the accumulation of all wealth that can be converted into productive assets.
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