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True enough, but that is more than counter-acted by a larger number of opportunities existing for small amounts of capital. As a person's capital holdings grow larger, it becomes progressively harder to find investments that can absorb a significant share of their capital. That means having to find multiple superior investment opportunities to divide their investment capital across, to fetch high rates of return.

The empirical evidence does not suggest that capital investment is a process that is inherently inequality generating. Capital's share of income has actually declined in the G7 when you exclude housing (see Figure 3):

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