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Flat White

If lefties want to talk capitalism in the 21st century, can they at least get an honest, fresh critique?

10 December 2020

2:11 PM

10 December 2020

2:11 PM

First there was the book, now there is the “documentary” film version of French economist Thomas Piketty’s Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century — French capitalism.

The book was marketed by the left as the correct line on growing inequality under capitalism and sold well as such, but it was in fact a description of the liberalisation of the previously heavily controlled French economy, made to look like universal principle.

This film goes a step even further and simplifies it into a universal description of human economic development.

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