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‘Capital in the Twenty-First Century’: Film Review
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variety.comA head-spinning documentary, based on the book by French economist Thomas Piketty, turns the tale of capital in the last 300 years into a financial detective story that exposes our current crisis.
By Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic Do you know what the average life expectancy was in the 18th century? It was 17. (You read that right.) No, this wasn’t just about the fact that human beings back then tended to live less long.
It was about the staggering inequality that society was built on. In Europe, the majority of people were hand-to-mouth laborers who drifted from place to place, lacking the benefits of being landed servants. (Not that being a landed servant was any picnic.) They existed in poverty, without health care or schooling or
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