"The story of capitalism is the central reality of everyone’s life. But it isn’t taught in high school. It’s not on TV. All societies maintain what anthropologists call “social silence” about the society’s most significant subjects. As Tett puts it, what matters most “is not discussed because those topics are considered boring, irrelevant, taboo, or just unthinkable." (...) daily facts about capitalism seem boring, irrelevant, etc., to most people because they’re not part of a story. They’re like baseball scores when you don’t know anything about baseball’s rules (...) understanding the story of capitalism is like understanding all of that about baseball, plus having a team to root for, and realizing that, if your team loses, you’re going to die. This makes the business section much more exciting."

https://theintercept.com/2020/05/05/capital-21st-century-documentary-thomas-piketty/