There are many other documentaries about the same subject as “Capital in the 21 st Century” - i.e., the rise of the 0.1 percent and the fall of everyone else. The film, directed by Justin Pemberton, undermines that core power of the world’s elites - shaping how we think - in a particularly wise, sneaky way. “Capital in the 21 st Century” is based on the bestselling 2013 book by Thomas Piketty, a French economist. (Every month FT publishes a magazine called “How to Spend It.”) editorial board of the Financial Times, the salmon-colored international business newspaper read by Deutsche Bank vice presidents from London to Dubai to Singapore. But it sounds different coming from Gillian Tett at the beginning of a new documentary, “ Capital in the 21 st Century,” just released online. You may have heard this from a million rose emoji Twitter accounts. “The way the elite stays in power, and passes on their privilege to the next generation, is by shaping the way that we think.”
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