How TV & Film Portrays Capital Accumulation: Background information when reading Trust

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Trust

by Hernan Diaz

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How TV & Film Portrays Capital Accumulation

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Hernan Diaz has said about writing his novel Trust that, despite the numerous books depicting "the symptoms of wealth," "there are very, very few novels that deal with the process of accumulation of capital. This, to me, was baffling." This isn't surprising to me, as the accumulation of capital seems narratively uninteresting, at least less interesting than stories about the lives of wealthy people or the psychological wounds that keep them from appreciating their money. The accumulation of capital Diaz is talking about—investment—is not even necessarily "striking it rich." It is often having a significant amount of money in the first place and growing it, which is interesting in its perverse banality, but not exactly exciting.

If Diaz is right that the process of making and investing money tends to be less common in literature, we do see it a lot in media, in all the TV shows and movies and podcasts about tech start-ups that rely on venture capitalist funding. The ...

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