Today wealth and power that comes from it is extremely concentrated in the hands of the few. How does the extent of capital concentration compare to other periods of history: e.g. Ancient Greece, Rome, mediaeval England, renaissance Italy, revolutionary France or the Great Depression?
For historians interested in political economy, please comment about your period of expertise and what you know about class relations and wealth concentrations, and your response doesn't have to refer to my euro-centric examples, but also civilisations in India, China, indigenous peoples of the Americas and Australia etc