joining me now, economist and associate chair of the paris school of economics, thomas picketty.tal and ideology," a follow-up to his book, "capital in the 20th century," which is the basis for a new documentary, weaving a story that bridges the past and the future. >> essential what's happening, is that the gig economy, which is more and more productive, but where the gains of those productivity increases are going into the hands of a very small number of people. >> in a word, when picketty says that the future for capitalism is this highly illegal, highly social immobile future, it's alreadyhappening. >> economist thomas picketty joins me now. thomas, good to see you. thank you for being with us. we have an opportunity right now to do something you wrote about several years ago. in that capitalism has been laid bare as being flawed. but not something we need to throw away. something we need to fix. the capitalism in the last 40 years has been the gret of inequality. now that we look at it so deeply, what should we doing? as we spend the money and doing the difficult things we'r