That stark reality is the taking-off point for “ Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” a nimble and eye-opening documentary that puts you in the revelatory position of looking back over the last 300 years - where we’ve been and where we’re going - from a God’s-eye economic view. Their lives, in effect, were a death sentence. (Not that being a landed servant was any picnic.) They existed in poverty, without health care or schooling or much of anything else. In Europe, the majority of people were hand-to-mouth laborers who drifted from place to place, lacking the benefits of being landed servants. It was about the staggering inequality that society was built on. (You read that right.) No, this wasn’t just about the fact that human beings back then tended to live less long. Do you know what the average life expectancy was in the 18th century? It was 17.
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