Chrystia Freeland has a hopeful thesis. ???Piketty???s work,??? she says, ???and the wider shift it surely portends, poses a new, powerful, existential threat to the plutocrats.??? Her argument in a nutshell: politicians across the political spectrum, but especially on the left, have historically used the language of criminality to rail against the rich. (See, for instance, how the WEF said that ?