Those who argue the modern wealth disparity is unprecedented should consider that some historian estimated the richest private citizen in world's history was Marcus Lucinius Crassus, one of Julius Caesar's colleagues in the first triumvirate. He was calculated to own 1/12 of the total wealth of the entire world. In today's terms he would be worth 5 trillion dollars, or ~70 times richer than the richest man in the world today.
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