“It seems safe to say that Capital in the Twenty-First Century, the magnum opus of the French economist Thomas Piketty, will be the most important economics book of the year-and maybe of the decade.”-Paul Krugman, New York Times Don't accept the status quo.In May 2020 a full-length documentary film based on Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century opened via virtual screenings at independent theaters across the United States. I once heard, "To be rich in America means never having to be around people who aren't." So don't even accept any of the premises they are arguing from. They live in a complete bubble and think the entire universe revolves around them, and they are absolutely myopic because they only hear each others' opinions and live in separate zip codes. So it's simple: don't accept the narratives of the elites. If you even accept the very idea that someone's views on an opposing channel are worth debating, you have implicitly bought into the idea that they even have merit in the first place. It's the same with the 'mainstream news' media. I say to my family, when Eminem even acknowledges the very existence of mumble rappers, it gives them more power. I have been reading a book about the Koch brothers, and I can say with absolute certainty: do not trust ANYTHING they say. The elites make it seem like the solutions are untenable, but they distort the narrative significantly.
Politically, it shouldn't even be that hard. I don't really think it's that hard to imagine a solution. The economy seems to keep lurching from crisis to crisis, and people throw up their hands every time there's a collapse of sorts and then private equity shows up and buys up everything, and the cycle of wealth accumulation goes basically unchallenged. We keep on hearing the same story over and over again. I definitely learned some things, and also didn't.
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