‘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

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The problem is he doesn’t walk the walk. His success comes from capitalism. He’s very well off because of capitalism.

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So you can only critique capitalism if you’re unsuccessful? That doesn’t make any sense.

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Sure you can. It’s just that it comes across a whole lot less hypocritical coming from someone who hasn’t first exploited that system themselves.

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Why would someone talk about the pitfalls of a system while benefiting from that system?

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we should improve society somewhat

yet you participate in society! curious

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Which country doesn’t engage in that economic arrangement?

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By choice or by circumstance? The rich profit from capitalism therefore they use their wealth to maintain the system that is benefiting them the most. The poor have to participate in varying degrees just to survive.

You think people choose to bust their asses for $8/hr?

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You admit then that there is nowhere else in Europe for Yanis to have not participated in capitalism, unless he somehow miraculously managed to stop the dissolution of Russia and it’s friends in the 90s.

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