我快读完 Walter Scheidel 的《不平等社会》（The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century）了。它对从石器时代至今的全球收入不平等历史，以及重大“抚平（leveling）”事件的影响提出了极具吸引力的见解。虚构类方面，我正在看《Merlin:……
I'm almost finished with "The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century" by Walter Scheidel. It's a fascinating take on the global history of income inequality from the Stone Age to today; and the impact of major "leveling" events. On the fiction side, I'm enjoying the "Merlin:…
严重的大流行对精英阶层其实非常不利，因为大规模死亡会提升打工人的价值。参见 Scheidel 的《The Great Leveler》等著作。
Severe pandemics are actually really bad for elites, since large scale death increases the value of employees. See e.g. "The Great Leveler" by Scheidel.
如果你想看反面（逻辑上倒也不算逆命题！）论点，即动荡与战争会导致经济平等，我推荐 Walter Scheidel 的《The Great Leveler》。https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691183251/th...
For the opposite (not quite converse logically!) argument that unrest and wars lead to economic equality, I recommend Walter Scheidel's "The Great Leveler". https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691183251/th...
有本让人清醒的书叫《The Great Leveler》，书中认为，不断扩大的不平等现象唯一被逆转的时候，就是发生大规模战争或其他像瘟疫这样的大规模死亡事件时。
There's a sobering book "The Great Leveler" that argues that the only time growing inequality is reversed is during large scale war or other mass death event like plague.
去看看最近出的那本《The Great Leveler》。它基本假定在整个人类历史上，唯一能让日益加剧的贫富差距降下来的，只有自然灾害或战争。如果真是这样的话，还挺吓人的……
Check out the recent book The Great Leveler. It basically postulates that over the course of human history, the only things that cause rising wealth inequality to decrease is natural disasters or warfare. Pretty scary stuff if that's all to be…
我快读完 Walter Scheidel 的《不平等社会》（The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century）了。它对从石器时代至今的全球收入不平等历史，以及重大“抚平（leveling）”事件的影响提出了极具吸引力的见解。虚构类方面，我正在看《Merlin:……
I'm almost finished with "The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century" by Walter Scheidel. It's a fascinating take on the global history of income inequality from the Stone Age to today; and the impact of major "leveling" events. On the fiction side, I'm enjoying the "Merlin:…
严重的大流行对精英阶层其实非常不利，因为大规模死亡会提升打工人的价值。参见 Scheidel 的《The Great Leveler》等著作。
Severe pandemics are actually really bad for elites, since large scale death increases the value of employees. See e.g. "The Great Leveler" by Scheidel.
如果你想看反面（逻辑上倒也不算逆命题！）论点，即动荡与战争会导致经济平等，我推荐 Walter Scheidel 的《The Great Leveler》。https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691183251/th...
For the opposite (not quite converse logically!) argument that unrest and wars lead to economic equality, I recommend Walter Scheidel's "The Great Leveler". https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691183251/th...
有本让人清醒的书叫《The Great Leveler》，书中认为，不断扩大的不平等现象唯一被逆转的时候，就是发生大规模战争或其他像瘟疫这样的大规模死亡事件时。
There's a sobering book "The Great Leveler" that argues that the only time growing inequality is reversed is during large scale war or other mass death event like plague.
大概是《The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century》（不平等社会）
Probably "The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century"
去看看最近出的那本《The Great Leveler》。它基本假定在整个人类历史上，唯一能让日益加剧的贫富差距降下来的，只有自然灾害或战争。如果真是这样的话，还挺吓人的……
Check out the recent book The Great Leveler. It basically postulates that over the course of human history, the only things that cause rising wealth inequality to decrease is natural disasters or warfare. Pretty scary stuff if that's all to be…