In his new book, the maverick Greek economist says we are witnessing an epochal shift. At his island home, he argues it’s now the ‘fiefdoms’ of tech firms that shape us

‘Capitalism is dead. Now we have something much worse’: Yanis Varoufakis on extremism, Starmer, and the tyranny of big tech::In his new book, the maverick Greek economist says we are witnessing an epochal shift. At his island home, he argues it’s now the ‘fiefdoms’ of tech firms that shape us

  • db2@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    1 year ago

    At his island home

    … is where he lost me. He can call back when he has to choose between electricity and rent.

    • Redredme@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      This is a weird take. Just because someone is (or has been) successful he can’t speak about or for socialism?

      You can’t be successful and a socialist? Is that it? That’s a very narrow and simply wrong view which has resulted in a lot of damage in societies which adopted it.

      Socialism needs succes stories. Otherwise, what’s the point? Mediocrity for all? That will never fly or become popular.

  • HaggierRapscallier@feddit.nlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    He’s spoken on the topic elsewhere, at least a few interviews (on youtube). That’ll be better than this slop - edit: the Guardian was co-opted by the UK securlty state after cops raided them soon they did their reporting on Edword Snowdon.

  • ComradeChairmanKGB@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    That’s just capitalism. But I guess when you benefit so greatly from the system, you can’t risk rocking the boat by talking about it openly. So you have to invent scary new names to smokescreen the root of the matter. “Technofeudalism”, “Neo feudalism”, “corporatism”, “crony capitalism” etc, is such crap. It’s still just capitalism.

    Ignoring the ridiculous manner in which the article is written, look at the clownish arguments being made.

    He charges rent. Which isn’t capitalism, it’s feudalism.

    I know you have an island home dickhead, but the rest of us have been paying plenty of rent under capitalism.