Piketty's works themselves are an example of something Mark Fisher already realized in 2009: All "poignant" critique of what is seen as capitalism will become incorporated into the system, make their writer famous and rich and will prevent any actual reform.<p>I knew he was completely cooked when he called to vote for Macron instead of Le Pen(I understand the far right criticism as applied to Le Pen, but if you are the "wealth inequality bad, more social policy good" guy and you call to vote for the guy with the clearly worse social policy, your project is cooked).