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Capital in the Twenty First Century

73 executivesfrom the unit that engineered the company's downfallall just got bonus...

REPORTER: 73 executives
from the unit that engineered the company's downfall
all just got bonus checks - worth a million or more.
- ...$1.6 billion in bonuses

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REPORTER: 73 executives from the unit that engineered
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the company's downfall all just got bonus checks
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- worth a million or more. - ...$1.6 billion in bonuses.
Duration
11 seconds
Views
28
Timestamp in Movie
01:04:53
Uploaded
Jun 07, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
GFC Films,Upside Télévision

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Based on Thomas Piketty's No. 1 New York Times Bestseller, Capital in the Twenty-First Century explores one of the most important and controversial subjects of our time: wealth, and who gets a share of the dividends.
JOHNSON: Wall Street and the views of Wall Street - Capital in the Twenty First Century 00:06
JOHNSON: Wall Street and the views of Wall Street
FUKUYAMA: Democracies in general are susceptible to this - Capital in the Twenty First Century 00:06
FUKUYAMA: Democracies in general are susceptible to this
And unless the democracy is renewed by the non-elites - Capital in the Twenty First Century 00:17
And unless the democracy is renewed by the non-elites
All across the world, you now have this layer of oligarchs - Capital in the Twenty First Century 00:09
All across the world, you now have this layer of oligarchs
MAN: Rationally speaking, it would make sense that - Capital in the Twenty First Century 00:09
MAN: Rationally speaking, it would make sense that
But that's not what our research and what a lot of other research - Capital in the Twenty First Century 00:06
But that's not what our research and what a lot of othe...
We brought strangers into the lab in pairs of two; - Capital in the Twenty First Century 00:11
We brought strangers into the lab in pairs of two;
The rich player got two times as much money to play the game, - Capital in the Twenty First Century 00:19
The rich player got two times as much money to play the game...
The inequality's almost immediately apparent - Capital in the Twenty First Century 00:05
The inequality's almost immediately apparent
But within a couple of minutes, dynamics start to crystallize. - Capital in the Twenty First Century 00:05
But within a couple of minutes, dynamics start to crystalliz...
And the rich player started to behave a little differently. - Capital in the Twenty First Century 00:04
And the rich player started to behave a little differently.
Rich players eat more pretzels. - Capital in the Twenty First Century 00:04
Rich players eat more pretzels.
When moving their piece around the board, they become louder. - Capital in the Twenty First Century 00:06
When moving their piece around the board, they become louder...
They start smacking the board with their piece. - Capital in the Twenty First Century 00:05
They start smacking the board with their piece.
They were far more likely to showcase and talk about - Capital in the Twenty First Century 00:11
They were far more likely to showcase and talk about
So they became less compassionate. - Capital in the Twenty First Century 00:04
So they became less compassionate.
These are patterns that we're observing consistently over - Capital in the Twenty First Century 00:06
These are patterns that we're observing consistently ov...
You see people who are winning because of the flip of a coin - Capital in the Twenty First Century 00:07
You see people who are winning because of the flip of a coin
One of the questions we ask is "Why did you win the game?" - Capital in the Twenty First Century 00:30
One of the questions we ask is "Why did you win the gam...
And when we watch patterns of human interactions, - Capital in the Twenty First Century 00:20
And when we watch patterns of human interactions,