The BEST discussion of our times I have been listening to!

I'm a big fan, as well! Love hearing from Yanis --> common sense + integrity!!! 🤝🏻✊🏻🙏🏻

One of the best and most hopeful interviews I’ve seen in these dark and terrifying times. Well done - well shared.

One Love! Always forward, never ever backward!! ☀️☀️☀️ 💚💛❤️ 🙏🏿🙏🙏🏼

Excellent talk! Thank you! Please also invite Gary Stevenson who worked as a trader and saw the system from the inside, and exposes the same things …

This should be part of the school curriculum ❤❤❤

Yanis is always so clear in his explanations and inspires a degree of trust in his view. It's a view that is shared by others such as Steve Keen (at least in principle) and gives me confidence in this analysis. I will definitely read the book as the details in this episode were tantalisingly few! I am hoping that alongside this reorganisation of the way businesses are structured there is also something about UBI and the decoupling of money from the labour market as well as the reduction in consumption generally. Perhaps I am looking beyond he scope of the book for a global approach but maybe not....

I find Yanis Varoufakis excellent at explaining how we got to where we are today. Yanis, correctly, compares today's economic and social times to Feudalism-adjacent. Personally, I think we also need to continue to understand how and by whom America was created. The Feudal system was ultimately, undone by the creation of a merchant class. These were the people who refused to work as serfs anymore, and chose to become the explorers and the traders who generated their own money from buying and selling commodities from Asia and the Middle East to the land-owning gentry of Europe. Fast forward and these are the people who chose to move to the New World and start the 13 colonies that become the United States. This Merchant Class rebelled against the British aristocracy and ended up creating the first country to be run by the Merchant Class. The issue is we have lived out what happens when the world superpower is rule by the landed aristocracy that do not work, but govern, and oppress the working class that own nothing. It's revolution and rebellion. But we have not, until now, begun to lived out what happens when the world's leading superpower is ruled by a merchant class whose claim to power is the very stance that they "worked" for it. Despite ultimately, turning everything into a commodity, and turning everyone into commoditized consumers, they wield their story of a meritocracy like a sword against anyone who speaks out against their position of power. So, what will be the ultimate outcome?..I don't have an answer. We are living it out right now. But, I think first and foremost, we have to preserve the practice of Democracy. There is no way we will be able to fix this problem if everyone drops out and stops participating in the election of our leaders. That, in my opinion is essential.

He is Professor Emeritus of the current world. What insight you share not only with your wisdom but with your viewpoint changing guests. Thank you. Thank you, Mo.

This podcast is pure gold! Thank you.

"I wanna start with the reality of our world today." Oh boy, I am up for a ride even though I just came from a Nate Hagens video.

Mr Varoufakis is Brillant , just downloaded another now from Audible

Loved your Summary of this fascinating talk Mo........Yanis book is on my list......Thank you

Please think about the root issues! It won’t matter how much we focus on ourselves being better if the whole system is a fraud! Therefore, please wrap your brain around immediate and significant change to the system in place! Don’t be afraid or naive to think it can’t be radically changed! We need to change it now!

Chinese Tech giant Huawei is not a stock market-listed company, it is owned by all the employees of Huawei. Ren Zhengfei who is the funder of Huawei has less than 2% of the share of Huawei.

Yanis is "wise" or sly to propose that "new system" (ownership of the means of production by the workers) without calling it what it actually is by definition: socialism. Too many people still have propaganda induced "allergic" reactions to the term, but this is exactly what another clear headed thinker has been proposing all along: Richard Wolff and Democracy at Work, with their emphasis on the need to create more and more cooperatives, small and large ones, in which the workers own the companies they work at. Again, that is the definition of socialism. The role of the State is a completely different issue in the socialism of the future. In reality, however, if the State is also run truly democratically, is that not also a participant (worker/citizen) run "cooperative"?

Yanis is amazing! He was my economics lecturer at university. Enlightening and inspiring.

Wowow. Thank you sooooo much for this conversation 😊❤

Great interview and nice thoughts by Yanis. Now you only also need to incorporate the insights of Modrn Money Theory (MMT). Money does not only depend on the believe in it, but on taxes liabilities to the currency issuer. Therefore FIAT money is potenitally good, not production driven money Instead of further feeding the useless finacial markets, governments must start creating and spending money in the right amount to social, infrastructural and society-related issues. The amount of appliable money MUST thereby depend on tha available ressources and workers. So FIAT money can be really useful, if not abused in neoclassical and neoliberal thought boundaries, like austerity policies

2:30 “I had no intention of being a politician, I’m an economist.”

Wonderful conversation, Thank you Yanis and Mo🙏🏼

Fantastic video, hopefully you get to interview him again with his new book Technofeudalism

Thank you Mo and Yanis!!!!!!

Am big fan of Yanni. Great leadership. We need him to help transform the global financial and macro economic system. And love the advise to be best version of you at every moment….

yanis varoufakis is the best ❤

Enlightening 💡

Societies form to allow specialization such that provisioning can be done more efficiently and in greater volumes for all of its members. Healthy and holistic citizens advocate nurturing policies and will not begrudge resource usage with best practices and procedures that see the nurturing done. The assumptions are based on the idea that whatever provisions are produced will be applied to the meeting of basic needs equitably. They are also based on the idea that everyone will have more time to focus on quality of life enhancements, equitably. But, most of all, although often unspoken, it is founded on the idea that the members who do not proclaim themselves political sociopaths with their actions warrant optimal autonomy and not just to simply survive. Consensus seeking strategies are what create the possibility of a society. Anything less creates conflict, even within a psychologically healthy/holistic society. Consensus seeking, within good faith actors, is a foundational principle for establishing and maintaining any healthy society. Democracy is a measure of the quantity of consensus, not its quality. Political sociopath: Someone who is willing to do harm to another for the sake of opportunity, social capital, hierarchy, profit and/or pleasure. Only a reduction in our tolerance of bad faith and political sociopathy will move us forward. All governance will descend into oligarchy, plutocracy and fascism at rates that are determined by the quality and stability of its consensus seeking strategies, the tolerance/intolerance of bad faith actors in its processes, its best practices policies and the quality of the documentation of data that goes into the making of its policy choices.

2:38 *illogical economic austerities* “The most bankrupt European state [Greece] was given the largest loan in the history of humanity. Under conditions of crushing further, the incomes that were already so low as to make it bankrupt. And so it doesn’t take much to realize that this is a violation of basic logic.”

The real impact will be our grand children may need $ 1000 for one meal and $ 5 million one month rent $ 9 bn loan to buy a small house $ 100 bn to manage the expense of one family of three for 30 to 40 years

FIAT money in itself is not the problem, but the disproportion of who is issuing hiw much (central vs private bank), what it is spend on (decided by whom) and in whose interest it is unequallöy disrtibuted, specifically the non-producrively used money. Looking forward to reading your book 😎

Is it fair to say what we in the West suffer from is a crisis of values? I too applaud Yanis genius & imagination. We, the people, need a society that enshrines human flourishing and ecological wellbeing as its gold standard.

I think it would be interesting to invite Saifedean Ammous (author of the Bitcoin standard) who would probably agree with Yanis on the problems of the global financial system but would argue that Bitcoin is the solution, not central bank digital currencies.

A very good conversation about economy 🙆

Economic investigator Frank G Melbourne Australia is following this informative content cheers Frank 😊

Two men with mana. Love from NZ

Having in mind that the majority of the population on earth is struggling to survive financially, it is not so kind to give them the advice that the best they can do is just invest in themselves. Part of it is true of course, but with not such a big relative significance, considering the current structure of capitalism you are discussing! So this conversation needs a second part in the sense of Mo’s favorite :” What can we do about it and how can we make it happen!” Which combined with the AI future coming and the inevitable change of capitalism actually prompts a whole new series over the topic of how to create a different future altogether! So I hope we can welcome soon the “ How can we make it happen” series! Cheers, Mo!😅

The saddest part is THERE IS NO PLAN TO FIX THIS.

Love it, Yanis. As ever, 'all bad things begin in Greece', as you once sardonically put it. In this case, hopefully it's bad things ending, and something more humane rising from the embers. Efharisto poli, apo Melbourne

love u 2 Mo

Yanis is a great thinker and a very likable human being. I do however think he is slightly mistaken as far as Bitcoin is concerned. Whilst I totally agree that the crypto markets as a whole are a giant pyramid scheme, I do think that a few projects (such as Bitcoin, Ethereum and a few others) stand out, because they have a more sound economic foundation than any government currency currently in circulation. Furthermore, it’s entirely possible to imagine the idea that Yanis has for the role of central banks as a separate entity owned and controlled by the people but - and this is important - completely separate from the state. For sure, none of the current cryptocurrencies function in exactly this way, but they are paving the way by spearheading the technological innovation required. And why is it important to have a currency not controlled by the state? Because it gives the people of this world a very powerful tool for keeping their elected politicians (a class which will always exist in a global society) honest and true to their mandate.

Gold standard was only ever back by 25%... so the rest was fiat. Also consider energy use against this increase in credit creation banks issue, it correlates near 100%. It will fail when energy can't be gathered to flush out the ills. Simple.

Yanis refers here (~56:15) to “blood on the streets”, “civil war in the US”, etc. During the previous Gilded Age - late 20th century - following the Great War for Incorporation of the Western US, the saying was, “there was blood on the moon”, so extensive was the fighting and volume of blood letting. When the system collapses this time, blood will boil in nuclear disaster and the furnace of climate change.

How would you game the global money system if Britton Woods had not happened. The U.S. just came back after the war, and did nothing? Would the world be in better shape? Every country would have had to take care of themselves.

As I understand it we operate in the US we are a floating fiat currency .

42:56 The 2008 Real Estate crash of bogus loans for over priced properties was the moment I realized there is no such thing as money! TRANSFERABLE ASSETS = PHYSICAL ASSETS = STABILITY……you don’t own anything you are paying for.

The best way to be happy is try to be single if you are not married even if want to get married no children please in this uncertain world find a place preferably underdeveloped country where you can manage with very little money or no money little land small house preferably in two locations in two different state or country where you find unpolluted air and water and grow your own food

It is not no one will suffer much At some point everyone meaning more than 95% will will loose everything they think they OWN (they actually own the liability not the home because the owner of all the properties are some banker or other corporation or some wheathy smart individuals when you mortgage with a bank and reverse mortgage with another banker or somebody again somebody it is merged or clubbed together different people property with different market value and different loan portfolio etc it is a very very complex system no one even with lot of experience cannot make where exactly the real value stands when it crash globally everyone will know and suffer die The scar the memory will be for few years and again the gambling will start few will participate in the beginning and they will make some money and slowly most of the people will be in the gambling and beating when the final round comes most people who has access to finance and eligibility to borrow from the future will be part of the big ponzi scheme when it reaches a point it cannot grow beyond at the same pace when there is no one to accelerate further it will fail who ever got out of the gambling by Gods Grace will be little safe even their value of assets will come down to great extent someone who knows very well it is a gambling and they are lucky can make some good earnings out of the gambling game

Capitalism does not get people out of poverty, governments do.

Are we talking finance or alchemy ?

Fairer and more equal according to who?

tons of currency not money

Money was not always an illusion. At the time of Prophet Muhammad, money was gold, silver, livestock, crops, and trade articles.

Everybody having a bank account at the FED is the definition of CBDC... nice try Yanis

Oh ne yanis...it's dead in evening after spaghetti eating and morning starts with on again.

To Joe koniec na tym.

Czas dla kapitalizmu się skończył. Umarł.

Dosłownie.