I don’t say that democracy alone makes societies more equal. Before we could even make such a statement we needed to define the terms democracy and equality, but this would take more space than we have here in a blog post. I meant that more as a hint for @pancake to seriously study the “accumulation” of capital across countries. Regarding the concentration of power and capital, the so-called “communist state” is not better if not even worse as your remark about Ceaușescu’s Palace suggests.