Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism - Yanis Varoufakis Audiobook

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  caesar963
  November 10th, 2023
  

  

  Fair play to Yanis, he’s a seriously wealthy guy, with a substantial property portfolio, and many other assets. He does have that cool Bond villain look, too. Viva la revolución!

  His party received a serious kicking in the June elections.
  When he took office as finance minister in 2015, he boasted that he would negotiate a massive write-down of Greece’s debt.
  Instead, his confrontation with the EU led to a run on the Greek banks & the near collapse of the entire economy. He resigned after 6 mths.

  Thereafter, he continued to advise other small Euro countries to follow his economic prescriptions & renege on their debts, as a route to economic success & glory.

  Oddly, he has yet to acknowledge his leading role in the disaster wrought by the pursuit of fantasy economic policies which destroyed the living standards of working people in Greece.

  There’s a lesson in there for those who desire radical & simplistic panaceas to complex economic problems.

  Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism - Yanis Varoufakis
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  iconoclastzero
  November 10th, 2023
  

  This book was released in September which at best means there’s nothing newer than the end of 2022. How can we take a book so out of date seriously?

  Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism - Yanis Varoufakis
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  apnea
  November 11th, 2023
  

  

  caesar, who knew one guy had such power? You would think he would crown himself King & Pope.
  So it’s not in the least bit complex, involving other people and heaven forbid any influence, good or bad, from other nations or mother nature NOPE it all boils down to one mustache twirling generic bad guy. Same as Russia gate.

  **How economics became a religion** The long read
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  “Its moral code promises salvation, its high priests uphold their orthodoxy. But perhaps too many of its doctrines are taken on faith.
  ‘
  Although England has an established church, few of us today pay it much mind. We follow an even more powerful religion, around which we have oriented our lives: economics. Think about it. Economics offers a comprehensive doctrine with a moral code promising adherents salvation in this world; an ideology so compelling that the faithful remake whole societies to conform to its demands. It has its gnostics, mystics and magicians who conjure money out of thin air, using spells such as “derivative” or “structured investment vehicle”. And, like the old religions it has displaced, it has its prophets, reformists, moralists and above all, its high priests who uphold orthodoxy in the face of heresy.”
  ‘
  https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/jul/11/how-economics-became-a-religion
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  “We have a finite environment—the planet. Anyone who thinks that you can have infinite growth in a finite environment is either a madman or an economist.”
  ― David Attenborough

  Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism - Yanis Varoufakis
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  caesar963
  November 11th, 2023
  

  And after all that, Yanis is himself…an economist. Devastating.
  “who knew 1 guy had such power” - He was finance minister. And govt policy & definitive declarations can (& did in Yanis’ case) have a very real & catastrophic impact on market confidence & consequently the real livelihoods of workers. Y’know, the people he claims to care about. Still hasn’t acknowledged it though. Expediently, it’s always someone else’s fault. Funny how that always works out. And he continued to advise other small EU states to devastate their own economies in the same stupid, failed manner. Economists, eh?

  Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism - Yanis Varoufakis
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  sanmutem
  December 19th, 2023
  

  

  Thank you :) Good reading.

  Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism - Yanis Varoufakis
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  Audi0books
  March 18th, 2024
  

  

  A prophet for our times. Ignore the resident curmudgeon. Yanis failed as a finance minister in an already failed state surrounded by powerful neoliberal powers. There is no justice among this type of an unequal match of forces. Still there is an idea whose time is fast approaching and Yanis is on the right side of history.

  Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism - Yanis Varoufakis
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  suraci984
  April 5th, 2025
  

  

  Oh look, Caesar is here again to make comments that have nothing whatsoever to do with the book, which he clearly has not read, and everything to do with his little bubble world ideology being threatened by anyone who doesn’t intimately share each and every one of his delusions.

  Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism - Yanis Varoufakis
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  Tokyo22
  April 14th, 2025
  

  

  Thank you for sharing!

  The dude got some interesting perspectives.

  Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism - Yanis Varoufakis

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