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possible education is greatly differentiated, so that
there is more opportunity than might have seemed at
first to increase the investment in education. It is
clear, however, that the frontier is not as open as
in the case of wealth which is impersonal so that
the individual capitalist is faced with a world of
opportunities for using additional capitals He has
merely to buy twice as many houses or factories while >
the educational iraestor may have to think hard before
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he finds a reasonable way of doubling his investment.
And yet it appears that the tendency for diffusion of
incomes, i.e. of the pushing out of the top scale of
incomes to over higher levels, is no less prominent
in the case of earned than of unearned income. (The up
shot is that we have to take a closer look on the
opportunities offered by the market which for the reasons
Just mentioned are more important in the case of earned
income than in the case of wealth.
We might also put it as follows: The range of the rote
of return to wealth is limited enough to be restricted
to values below 100 % or lower.In the case of earned In
come the relation to an educational investment will
quite often include returns of several hundred percent.
Or, to put it still another way: It seems that the in
equalities of earned incoma could not be adequcMy
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