Yanis Varoufakis: We are living in a post capitalist dystopia
From the push to turn more of the workforce into precarious gig workers to the ways profitseeking digital platforms condition how we act and think while extracting free data from us, we can see and feel everyday the creeping evidence that we are living in a new reality. As worldrenowned Greek economist, author, and politician Yanis Varoufakis argues, This is how capitalism ends: not with a revolutionary bang, but with an evolutionary whimper. Just as it displaced feudalism gradually, surreptitiously, until one day the bulk of human relations were marketbased and feudalism was swept away, so capitalism today is being toppled by a new economic mode: technofeudalism. In their latest interview for TRNN, cohosts of THIS IS REVOLUTION Jason Myles and Pascal Robert speak with Varoufakis about how this technofeudalist system emerged, what sets it apart from the global capitalist system that preceded it, and what it will mean for humanity if we dont stop it. Yanis Varoufakis formerly served as the
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