The Stupidity of Capitalism | Yanis Varoufakis

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3 ай бұрын

This clip is from the acclaimed new docuseries 'In The Eye Of The Storm - The Political Odyssey Of Yanis Varoufakis' now available to watch at: www.eyeofthestorm.info
'In the Eye of the Storm' is a documentary series about the dramatic journey and inspiring vision of one of the foremost political figures of our age, the maverick Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis.
Opening with a whistleblowing account of his epic battle with the European Union, economist turned politician Yanis Varoufakis weaves a gripping narrative about the fate of our civilisation in this groundbreaking series, joining the dots between the spectre of fascism, the crisis of capitalism, and the historic climate challenge.
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@stanstreatfield3485 3 ай бұрын

I agree with, and admire Yanis a lot , but I would point out that when he says that ,we should not be angry with the people who want to take away what we have , we should be angry with the system, the thing is that the people who want to take away what we have are the ones who have designed and implemented the system and fight tooth and nail to block any change to that system. I can be angry at both.

@ericchristen2623 2 ай бұрын

Agree. There is evil and evil people.

@przyognisku 3 ай бұрын

The main problem is that most people are idiots...

@rjung_ch 3 ай бұрын

idiots is maybe a bit harsh, but most people don't take the time to think about things, too many distractions in the everyday lives of most people.

@Pertemba40 3 ай бұрын

World's people sadly live inured and enslaved to the monetary system that creates all the conditions for corruption, forced to live in their own bubbles to survive....we need to transcend this system already expired.

@fdelrosalg 3 ай бұрын

Also social built indicators of succes does not allow the individual act of deepen in critic matters to be something useful, valuable or even usual. Poor form is the uniformity. So then time goes by ehile nothing change or even is allowed to.

@JohnAllenRoyce 3 ай бұрын

In the classical Greek sense of the work--selfishly apathetic to politics--yes most people have shown themselves to be idiots. They become useful for warmongers, historically.

@przyognisku 3 ай бұрын

@@rjung_ch political correctness is the first thing that blocks the wind of change

@MeleanDialogue 3 ай бұрын

Lovely to see I'm not alone in thinking....

@TerryBecker-bw1vx 3 ай бұрын

The mind bending part is they can't bring themselves to do even the simplist of things to help the people!

@l.w.paradis2108 3 ай бұрын

Why would they? They spend more on lobbying than they do on taxes, and they represent a much greater burden on the armed forces, the FAA, the highways and rails, and the courts than the rest of us do. (I'm deliberately not mentioning the environment, though that one is obvious. But there is no direct relationship with taxes, my main topic here.) Then when our deficit explodes, they buy Treasury bonds to finance the government, and _our_ taxes pay _them_ interest on those bonds. Cute, huh?

@l.w.paradis2108 3 ай бұрын

Why the censorship again? I tried to reply twice.

@l.w.paradis2108 3 ай бұрын

Why would they? They spend more on lobbying than they do on taxes, and they represent a much greater burden on the armed forces, the FAA, the highways and rails, and the courts than the rest of us do. (I'm deliberately not mentioning the environment, though that one is obvious, because there is no obvious, direct link to taxes.) Then when our deficit explodes, they buy Treasury bonds, and _our_ taxes pay _them_ interest on those bonds. Cute, huh?

@MSYNGWIE12 3 ай бұрын

Well said my friend. Namaste from Canada

@chaffaitekfi686 3 ай бұрын

Thank you Yanis for being on the right side of history.

@anthonymorris5084 3 ай бұрын

He has yet to be on the right side of history. He's an anti capitalist and an anti Semitic. Both capitalism and Israel are success stories.

@heathdavid2540 3 ай бұрын

we need to keep talking like this, about the system, mode of production, the economy, that is what we need to talk about, and we used to… but somehow the left got played, so that its now only about identity politics and not economics/capitalism

@urrywest 3 ай бұрын

Reagan: if you let those who *'MAKE'* keep more of what they *'MAKE'* and don't take that away and give it to the *Takers* you get more.....

@Tethloach1 3 ай бұрын

Nothing wrong with that, that is the way it should be, and my IQ is 132+. The left should play a minor role in economics instead let the right take the lead. The left should focus on identity politic's as its bread and butter. Flaws of the Soviet system: 1. Antagonized the west way too much 2. It was way too harsh on Capitalism 3. It relied too much on violence and aggression

@sjoncb 3 ай бұрын

Well said!!

@cheryl-annsporri3175 3 ай бұрын

I am full of gratitude of having a human being like you to listen to …just hearing the purity in your voice is an inspiration . Thank you.

@maxyogi 3 ай бұрын

This was Beautiful.

@Tensquaremetreworkshop 2 ай бұрын

It is often said that planning the economy would be much more efficient that leaving it to market forces. Every time it is tried, it turns out to be worse.

@traditionalwadoryukarate8571 3 ай бұрын

I'm in the center right but love listening to this guy. He's probably the politician who could bridge the gap between right and left.

@jefcaruss5327 3 ай бұрын

The music was distracting.

@achimbaeppler1276 3 ай бұрын

Love your words

@lawrencenoctor2703 3 ай бұрын

Big fan, love your work. Cut the background music please.👍

@PeppermintPatties 3 ай бұрын

Yeah, it's loud, isn't it!

@edwardmclaughlin7935 3 ай бұрын

I'm liking this appeal to heed the natural flow of human spirit. Not as keen on the general tenor that challenges my right to the things I've worked for. Smacks of the now familiar call to 'own nothing and be happy'.

@asma.nooruddin 3 ай бұрын

Maa-shaa-Allah, well said!

@Rexini_Kobalt 3 ай бұрын

looooove the music. i feel like some sort of ancient philosopher sitting in an amphitheater, listening to one of the great orators of the time 😂

@erikolsen6269 3 ай бұрын

Amen

@MeleanDialogue 3 ай бұрын

Some of us who believe in free will ( not me) may think there is a small correlation effect between focussing on accumulating wealth (rather than partying or being lazy or focussing on the needs of others) and accumulated wealth.

@dashong8912 3 ай бұрын

The human spirit of a capitalist is to take as much he/she can, never mind about the others.

@gregorysagegreene 3 ай бұрын

The 'human spirit' will *never* be allowed.

@nmzaki1 3 ай бұрын

Yes, but those who have more will defend that stupid system. For them, it's not stupid. Some might say, they have created such a system.

@johnwertheimer106 3 ай бұрын

The problem with his argument is that there are many people born into poverty who succeed and many born into wealth who fain

@MeleanDialogue 3 ай бұрын

In synch with the best Greek philosophy

@globalcitizen6309 3 ай бұрын

“We don’t deserve what we have, it is the accident of birth, if you were born in a different family, you wouldn’t have anything, it’s got nothing to do with your deserving got”

@MilenaBlazanovic-oq2iy 3 ай бұрын

I don't agree with that. Part of it yes, one can't choose where one can be born, but other part of the medal is that we are children of our ancestors who were building and shaping better society for us, therefore we didn't got it out of thin air, they were fighting for this freedom and they gave it to us, their children and grandchildren, they were responsible. Why won't other societies do the same!? We can't be responsible for all of the third world countries

@globalcitizen6309 3 ай бұрын

@@MilenaBlazanovic-oq2iy what about the interference of the 1st world countries and their ever growing greed which ensures misery in the 3rd world countries? That situation does not even allow those people of the 3rd world country to grow and understand how to get out of that situation!

@MilenaBlazanovic-oq2iy 3 ай бұрын

@@globalcitizen6309 Educate yourself. In the last 50 years western countries helped reduce poverty in the third world countries that had people dying out of hunger before, for about 90% and this is a fact. Google it. Just Google how much the west have been given to Africa for their development, for schooling kids, for food, how many vaccines did we sent them so they stop mortality out of illnes we discovered cure long time ago. It was enormous amount of money trough decades. On the other hand, my country never had colonies anywhere, we never had slaves. I don't owe anything to Africa. I want to help our own people, we have enough of people that can't afford home or children.

@MilenaBlazanovic-oq2iy 3 ай бұрын

@@globalcitizen6309 Educate yourself. West have helped to almost eradicate poverty in the third world countries for about 90%. Im talking about poverty that was so bad that people were dying out of hunger. Google how much money have we sent to the third world countries for decades.

@MilenaBlazanovic-oq2iy 3 ай бұрын

@@globalcitizen6309 Google how much vaccines medicine and money for building schools and etc have we sent to Africa so far. On the other hand, my country never had any colonies anywhere, we never had slaves. I don't owe anything to Africa

@jefcaruss5327 3 ай бұрын

Please, no music. It was distracting and unnecessary.

@AM-uw7bs 3 ай бұрын

The Greek collapse was building for years. This man inherited that problem and worked hard for the people of Greece in the face of the ECB's austerity measures. He is a good and just man. I believe that what he says here is the truth.

@doris9309 3 ай бұрын

❤

@papi5377 3 ай бұрын

Porównaj sobie kapitalizm, marksizm który był obowiązkową lekturą w Wast pPount. Ja nie widzę żadnej różnicy.

@user-qd8yg1fp7i 3 ай бұрын

If only. Nonetheless, my respects.

@holgerfriedrichsohn6894 3 ай бұрын

If a child grow up without necesarrely emotional support of it's needs and isn't beloved enough and become a narcissistic unsocial adult with a growing inner emptyness how it will behave?

@papi5377 3 ай бұрын

Tak czy owak jestem córką Filipa A pierwiastki Wenus należą do mnie.

@keatingaaron 2 ай бұрын

Why?

@mariettestabel275 3 ай бұрын

If people earn 1000 Euro's in a minute during an interview.(?)

@onlytimewilltell204 3 ай бұрын

Saying that its is also true you cant expect anything without putting an effort into it

@imnotanalien7839 3 ай бұрын

Slavery V individual freedom. For most of history that we know of, societies have been King/pharaoh/dictator and their slave model. Then an accident happened…America. A country populated by serfs/slaves.. were in a position to fight the King and miraculously won. A society patchworked together but somehow held and grew without much government. A society of free individuals, building businesses, cities infrastructure, and capitalism. Products and services traded around the world. Free markets, free trade. It worked. When you hold a baby, and look into it’s eyes…. do you see a slave or an individual who might cure cancer, or get us to Mars? That’s the most valuable thing America has given the world…a choice! Individualism works. ❤🇺🇸

@Touchlineteaser 3 ай бұрын

You need to take off those rose-tinted glasses. What happened those native inhabitants of the land after the settlers arrived who incidentally weren’t serfs. Yours is an Alice in Wonderland History.

@l.w.paradis2108 3 ай бұрын

P. S. No, we do NOT need to go to Mars to live. No atmosphere, no magnetic field means cosmic radiation will kill you.

@l.w.paradis2108 3 ай бұрын

For some reason, I was unable to remind you about that other slave part that took place in the States. Wonder why it got pulled?

@anthonymorris5084 3 ай бұрын

Agree 100% except the part about it being an accident.

@anthonymorris5084 3 ай бұрын

@@Touchlineteaser This is myopic. The history of humanity across the globe is a story of invasion, violence, conquering and oppression. Look what came out of the ashes of North American colonization. Bastions of freedom and prosperity where every citizen can participate. Imagine if the Chinese or Islamists arrived there first. Exactly what do you think this continent would look like if the Europeans never arrived? A paradise of hunter gatherers?

@starwall8755 3 ай бұрын

The rich only ever act in the interests of themselves, their class. If we were wealthy we would do the same, most of us anyways. The lesson here is not that rich people are evil, it's that any system which allows some few to become so rich and powerful so as to do evil almost by accident. To survive, as a civilization, we must change our economic mode of the distribution of resources, the whole socioeconomic system must be overhaulled to put people and our enforcement first. This is what is needed to survive. This would be smarter.

@HerrschmannNachmann 3 ай бұрын

the force that is corrupting those who do have success or just enough luck is one of the main powers the established system has. As long as a bigger section of the society feels like being lucky, the longer it will be possible to sell the required amount of acceptance to the masses ... ... CBDC for having the status of all resources available in real time - and implementing a data-driven approach to "value maximizing" when it comes to the distribution is what I prefer. Plus a CBDC-backed UBI, so that it is the needs and the related demand of the people that is in the center of resource allocation. Together with a competition of ideas and best practices based on CSCW / Digital Workspace solutions resources and gratifications can be directed to those who "deliver" / maximize the output of the given resources...

@ZenBen_the_Elder 3 ай бұрын

Amen, brother!

@redtobertshateshandles 3 ай бұрын

Those wealthy people employ millions of people. They invest in wealth creation. They go to work every day, too. They don't sit on their lazy asses complaining all day and every day. Believe in Marxist rubbish if you want to. You will get nothing. My advice?? Get a job.

@PeppermintPatties 3 ай бұрын

Yes, agreed. 👍 To do THIS, though, we each need to believe we can make a difference to effect change, and people don't believe this. We need to believe, and we need to educate ourselves and persuade others. Every journey starts with a first step. Many drops of water make an ocean. Let it be you that is the change. We can all do something. Free Palestine 🙏🇵🇸❤️

@ickster23 2 ай бұрын

It's not just "the rich". Put in place a system where the government runs everything, and you will find "the rich" replaced by those "in positions of bureaucratic power". Every system will become corrupted by those who seek and attain power. This applies to socialism, capitalism, free markets, social democracy, etc. There isn't a single case in history where this doesn't occur.

@aku7598 3 ай бұрын

There is so much time on our hands and extra money, then we need toys like a child to pass our times.

@robertchaplin 3 ай бұрын

This video did not deal with the “why” of the problem. It is just a complaint.

@holgerfriedrichsohn6894 3 ай бұрын

So how to handle greedy comfort and envious behaviour with less social skills and high neoliberal narcissism ? How to handle growing attention syndroms ? How to handle the,dar triangle of sociopathic narcissistic maciavellism if the public is mass manipulated by emotion affect politics ?

@adcaptandumvulgus4252 3 ай бұрын

I blame bread and circuses

@ABO-Destiny 3 ай бұрын

Agree society is grossly inefficient in proper distribution. And i believe any human created system running for a long time when it has outlived its purpose will return bad results and nation states in many ways had become that long back and is surviving because we do not have proper alternatives in segregating people who are naturally harmful to each other. The economic model of capitalism has similarly otlived its purpose because nowadays the only benefit we get out of it is not in production of new things because human beings are already flooded with so many new things that they are using cutting edge technologies to kill each other,instead its utility i only see in providing services and supporting the nation states which as we know had already otlived its purpose but is sticking out as there is no alternative in place.

@l.w.paradis2108 3 ай бұрын

Financialization did this. Adam Smith, with his denunciation of the rentier, and his stress of the importance of the commons, was a dream compared to today.

@anthonymorris5084 3 ай бұрын

Humans have always used technology to kill each other. From the day the first human used a rock. The capitalist West, through economic growth and technological advancement has created the highest standards of living this planet has ever seen.

@Johnconno 3 ай бұрын

We don't deserve what we haven't got.

@l.w.paradis2108 3 ай бұрын

I do. It was taken from us in a series of crimes and torts.

@Johnconno 3 ай бұрын

@@l.w.paradis2108 Tortious interference?

@l.w.paradis2108 3 ай бұрын

@@Johnconno LOL, good google skills for that vocab. No, much worse. Some went to jail, in fact. Enron was not the only corporate crime. In fact, each member of my family lived through one such case, entirely different industries.

@user-qn6dn1ht4j 3 ай бұрын

Did he say "stupidiots"?

@prismbrandingrealestatebra6301 3 ай бұрын

Inequality starts at birth. Children born to two mature stable and loving parents are "emotionally" wealthier than children who aren't. THIS is where Inequality starts, NOT in the economic structure.

@HerrschmannNachmann 3 ай бұрын

a) CBDC for transparency / collecting and having all data of the status of all reasources in realtime b) build a transparent system of resource allocation with knowledge transfer and a competition of the best ideas on top of it for optimizing resource allocation. ... on top of this everything else can be build on. A UBI with a resource tax for the hoardings as well as a competition of regional rulesets ... PS: "hating" the rich-born owners class is the wrong wording and attitude - but not accepting them and their position in the society as well as not accepting the interpretation of the ruleset of this MONOPOLY "game" should be okay, shouldnt it?

@bjolie78 3 ай бұрын

To those who have not, do they or don't they deserve something ? Do you deserve a private jet? Do you deserve clean drinking water? What is need and what is greed? Where do you draw the line?

@l.w.paradis2108 3 ай бұрын

Drawing lines is not that hard.

@bjolie78 3 ай бұрын

@@l.w.paradis2108 is it? What about health care? Is it a human right or a commodity?

@l.w.paradis2108 3 ай бұрын

@bjolie78 A certain minimum is a human right. This is a simple question! For incarcerated persons, the Eighth Amendment guarantees a certain minimum, and there is no requirement that the person be able to work in return. So how can it be, that someone who has never committed a crime should have less than what society provides to those who have? Also, it's even more obvious for infants, children, and elderly people. The market cannot function for them at all -- their costs are not under any control that they themselves can exert.

@bjolie78 3 ай бұрын

@@l.w.paradis2108 I guess you are a Bernie Sanders fan?

@l.w.paradis2108 3 ай бұрын

@@bjolie78 How is that a response to my point?

@jonnyblamey 3 ай бұрын

It is a bit strong to say that everything we own is an accident of birth. I have two brothers. We all have different things. Those differences aren’t accidents of birth but consequences of whole sets of actions and intentions. If the good consequences of intentional and conscious choices are not deserved then what is deserved?

@monkeymox2544 3 ай бұрын

But your both plays a gigantic role. If you'd been born in modern-day Somalia, or medieval Italy, you wouldn't have what you have. On top of that, luck continues to play a role throughout life. Millions of people - billions, even - work hard every day, and have almost nothing. A tiny minority of people do basically nothing useful, and own most of the world's wealth. This is undeniable.

@jonnyblamey 3 ай бұрын

What Yanis said was that you don’t deserve anything you own. Tell that to a Somali just getting his pay check.

@monkeymox2544 3 ай бұрын

@@jonnyblamey I'm pretty sure his statement isn't addressed to Somalians

@jonnyblamey 3 ай бұрын

@@monkeymox2544 ?? I think you brought up Somalia! I am basically with you in terms of sentiment. I think Yanis is an important voice. I feel it is important to be critical about who most agree with, because this is a really good clip which touches on a very deep issue, so people have moral claims to private property. As such it is very important to make precise points and not exaggerate. The WEF slogan “You will own nothing and be happy” is an extension of what Yanis is saying, yet many people find that slogan risable and threatening.

@l.w.paradis2108 3 ай бұрын

@@jonnyblameyNot what he said at all. But it is good to remember that you did not create the car you can buy, or the computer you use, or the school you went to, or the language you speak, or its writing system --- or do anything to make it be the global language of commerce. Perspective.

@platypass8294 3 ай бұрын

You mean NEOLIBERAL CAPITALISM, yes?

@deanthechamp5669 3 ай бұрын

I'll take a free market system over socialism any and every day.

@anthonymorris5084 3 ай бұрын

Agreed. No contest. That people are still clinging to this failed ideology in the 21st century is mind boggling. Cheers.

@liamrmorgans921 2 ай бұрын

So if someone is born in abject poverty in a slum in Africa, their parents disown them and they end up in an orphanage, but then work really hard- 80 hours a week- and innovate some new technology or open a business that is very successful and earn lots of money because of this, They don’t deserve it?

@kawaii_princess_castle 2 ай бұрын

It is a system by and for stupids!! Intelligent people don't care so much about accumulating material things but by understanding deeper questions! I can understand that it can provide abundance to a country but if everything is the market, it leads to mediocrity!

@augurcybernaut4785 2 ай бұрын

🤦‍♀️

@prismgems 3 ай бұрын

Because of the laws of thermodynamics, the universe we live in is capitalist. Look at the Serengeti Plain in Africa; pure, raw, unadulterated capitalism. This doesn't mean that human beings can't build societies that aren't capitalist, but it does mean that if we do someone has to pay for that. Since human beings evolved in an environment similar to the Serengeti Plain, it is a part of us to be selfish and greedy. Oh, sure, in small groups we co-operated to survive, but in the end we couldn't escape the reality of the universe. So, since any utopian system will be implemented using human beings, it will eventually fail because the most selfish and most greedy among us will take over. Who is that? The psychopaths. They lack emotional empathy, so they are extremely selfish, and extremely ruthless. We currently have no protection against them built into either our economic institutions or our political institutions. How would that even be accomplished? Would we force fMRI tests on all powerful people? And what about the ethics of what you are proposing? *_Why_* does some random person have a claim on what another random person produces? Because of your belief? What about their belief? Does your belief trump their belief? For what reason? PS People who believe in karma would argue that your situation in this life is directly based on your actions in your past lives. Or, the state of your awareness determines the state of your life.

@walterchin8832 3 ай бұрын

We should look at what China has to offer to the world of their system of win-win by cooperating together via trade to uplift the standard of living of humanity whereas the system has developed by the West for the last 400 years is no long serve humanity as a whole called capitalism in the guise of so called democracy through violence and sanctions. On the other hand China's system of creating a community of shared future of peace and prosperity for mankind.

@anthonymorris5084 3 ай бұрын

Sarcasm? Because you can't be serious. China is a human rights abusing totalitarian dictatorship that embraced capitalism in 1979. Free market economics took China from the stone age to the space age in 30 years. Today it is more oppressive than ever as Xi rolls back free markets and involves the state in the affairs of almost every enterprise. China's economy is floundering.

@neilclark8087 3 ай бұрын

Well we all know that the few remaining NON-Capitalist countries in the world are the best. Cuba, North Korea, Venezuela. that's it. I don't see any other country that does not apply a capitalist system of some sort.

@jonathanbethune9075 3 ай бұрын

My hopes are on China. There building it all again and I believe your notions of the egalitarian are high on there minds. Been eavesdropping for years and there just so impressive. A cult of efficiency.

@ph8077 3 ай бұрын

LOL Four letters: CBDC. You must be a CCP propaganda spambot....no one is THAT stupid!

@Greenlantern957 3 ай бұрын

I hosted two Chinese exchange students…they and there families would disagree with you

@jonathanbethune9075 3 ай бұрын

@@Greenlantern957 early days

@HerrschmannNachmann 3 ай бұрын

Digitalization and AI works best with centralization. If China implements CBDC for collecting the data that represents the status of all resources within the system & allows AI to optimize resource allocation and identify best practices and those who really contribute and those who really do have the good ideas, best practices, know how to share ...

@jonathanbethune9075 3 ай бұрын

@@HerrschmannNachmann I think that a natural extension of the social credit system coming from a whole of society or complete situational awareness. It is the state of the state from which all policy flows , not the corrupt bought and compromised self interested power brokers and politicians that want to game a system rather than optimize one for common prosperity.

@stephenoverdorf4917 3 ай бұрын

No such thing as an accidental birth.

@l.w.paradis2108 3 ай бұрын

"Accident *of* birth?" Sure there is. Or did you plan to be born where you were, to which family?

@anthonymorris5084 3 ай бұрын

Every nation becomes what the people create. Positive or negative. No place is great by default. So Yanis is full of it.

@marsaeolus9248 3 ай бұрын

This is so obvious, yet seemingly utopian...

@myalterego2878 3 ай бұрын

It's all rather stupid isn't it?

@urrywest 3 ай бұрын

Reagan: if you let those who *'MAKE'* keep more of what they *'MAKE'* and don't take that away and give it to the *Takers* you get more.....

@HerrschmannNachmann 3 ай бұрын

okay ... But I have certain doubts that he was talking about those "really" make and contribute - but he meant the owners of the shares ...// so: he actually meant the opposite: feed the parasites that are above you - and kick the poor losers below you!

@urrywest 3 ай бұрын

@@HerrschmannNachmann Yep.... Then he goes on to give everything to the rentiers.... But it is shown time and again what he said here is true.

@l.w.paradis2108 3 ай бұрын

So how come that never happened? We went from a country where a summer job paid for a year of in-state college tuition, and two roommates could afford the rent in any city, to what we have now --- and the change started with Reagan. The period of high creativity in Britain (meaning the music, dance, theatre, fashion, film) coincided with . . . "socialist" Harold Wilson. Yes, the Beatles could afford their guitars and drums, and so could everyone else. Yet taxes were much higher then, too -- everywhere. Explain that.

@urrywest 3 ай бұрын

@@HerrschmannNachmann Another quote saying by someone who was real reformer is Adam Smit: "Profit is the highest in nations closest to ruin" Certainly these dynamics have been hown for centuries where when civilizations have been taken over by reniers the civilization dies.

@urrywest 3 ай бұрын

@@l.w.paradis2108 The query is "who are the makers?" It is labor, like the struggeling beatles, that make things, although they were swooped up by marketerse [rentiers] who took most of the profits later. Reagan was a neoliberal. He went on to identify land owners and people who hike rents and don't pay labor as *"Makers"* and would desribe today's grarage bands as *"Takers"* What is clear is what Marx, Adam Smith and others meant when they said "capitalism" wouldn't be reconginzable as capitlism today but would be where we let the makers keep more of what they make or what we call socialism today.

@MilenaBlazanovic-oq2iy 3 ай бұрын

I don't agree with this that we don't deserve what we have. What we have is something our ancestors were building for their children's future. It is mental construct made by hundreds of years of developing society so we could have it this way and I'm very eager to preserve it because I don't think we ever had any better version of society. If others want to have similar society they should build it for their own children, our ancestors were dying for each right we have now, it didn't just fall of the sky to us, so people in third world countries should do the same. We can't and we shouldn't be the one who is solving the problems for others, they have responsibility on their own.

@danielh5159 3 ай бұрын

so if an ancestor murdered a bunch of innocent people, stole their wealth and left it for you to inherit, you would deserve that?

@MilenaBlazanovic-oq2iy 3 ай бұрын

My country never had any colonies!!! We never had slaves! I don't owe anything to Africa!

@MilenaBlazanovic-oq2iy 3 ай бұрын

Nope, my country never had any colonies anywhere, I don't owe anything to Africa

@l.w.paradis2108 3 ай бұрын

That wasn't by your efforts. We can never repay Plato!

@l.w.paradis2108 3 ай бұрын

@@MilenaBlazanovic-oq2iyIt's irrelevant anyway. If one of your ancestors was a royal, or a bandit, that is not your responsibility in either case. But if the bandit got away with it, and passed it down, your ancestors and you have no more nor less responsibility for it than if you happened to be born to royalty.

@warpedweft9004 3 ай бұрын

That's all very well, but stating the obvious useless if you can't provide a solution that actually works. Socialism and communism were supposed to fix that, theoretically, but it didn't take into consideration human nature and was only held together by brute force. So, there's no point in berating humans for what they are if you can't put forward a workable solution. It just makes you as bad as everyone else, a thinker but not a doer. No one in the history of man has been able to solve this issue because there are always the ones who are prepared to trample on the rest of society. Come back and tell us when you have a solution and a cast iron way of making sure everyone follows the plan, and we might listen to you. Until then it's all just noise in the background.

@poloelvira 3 ай бұрын

This guy married a rich heiress and lives a life of luxury. What is he talking about? Plus, if a son of a rich woman does not deserve what he has from his mom... how does a random child of someone else deserve it? There is a lot of valid criticism of the current system, like a ton. But thisextremist criticism ("you deserve nothing of what you own" nothing? really?) makes most people turn away from this ideologues. We know who you are and how your sick utopias end.

@d-5037 3 ай бұрын

"When I was poor and complained about inequality they said I was bitter; now that I'm rich and I complain about inequality they say I'm a hypocrite. I'm beginning to think they just don't want to talk about inequality."

@l.w.paradis2108 3 ай бұрын

So how did it happen that we went from a country where a summer job paid for a year of in-state college tuition, and two roommates could afford the rent in any city, to what we have now --- and the change started with Reagan. The period of high creativity in Britain (meaning the music, dance, theatre, fashion, film) coincided with . . . "socialist" Harold Wilson. Yes, the Beatles could afford their guitars and drums, and so could everyone else. Yet taxes were much higher then, too -- here, there, and everywhere. Explain that.

@threeone6012 3 ай бұрын

Could this guy stop making his face take up the entire screen in every video? It's almost like he's an out of control egomaniac.

@mrmc2465 3 ай бұрын

Full marks for trying to sound intelligent Yanis, with your lovely pseudo upper class English accent😂

@mariettestabel275 3 ай бұрын

His English is Perfect! And yes this Man is Brilliant.

@anthonymorris5084 3 ай бұрын

Well said. This guy loves himself.

@paulroberts8071 2 ай бұрын

You are using Ad hominem 1 Person A makes a claim 2 You don't like person A 3 Therefore person A is wrong . If someone's claim is wrong you need to show why . Maybe he loves himself. Maybe he doesn't. Maybe you love yourself. Maybe you don't. It's irrelevant.

@annaynely 3 ай бұрын

And those that have not been born in affluent families have been blessed by the Gods with differrent talents, academic minds since childhood and so society has allowed them to advance. So it is the same, there for the grace of God go I.

@l.w.paradis2108 3 ай бұрын

Talent, society thus allowing them to advance? Or society held them back. Bullying is common in super-competitive societies.

@marcozegikniet9301 3 ай бұрын

Right wingers will not aprove this message !

@MeleanDialogue 3 ай бұрын

They generally believe they "deserve" what they have, and they are normally jealous of those who have more. Most of us are like that.

@l.w.paradis2108 3 ай бұрын

@@MeleanDialogueI was never like that. I want my own thing.

@anthonymorris5084 3 ай бұрын

Neither does this centrist.

@MeleanDialogue 3 ай бұрын

@@anthonymorris5084 everyone can believe what he must. I believe I'll have another whiskey

@marcozegikniet9301 3 ай бұрын

@@anthonymorris5084 The love for capitalism is a religion. Capitalism sucks just like all other systems we had. Rich people enslaving the masses that's all there is ! A system that tells people that following only your own interest not carring about enybody else alway's leads to a world full of narcissist ! Exactly what we have today !

@befeleme 3 ай бұрын

The stupidity of Yanis Varoufakis.

@mariettestabel275 3 ай бұрын

Why?

@befeleme 3 ай бұрын

@@mariettestabel275 Because only an ignorant fool can espouse communism.

@Towertrips 3 ай бұрын

Why would you listen to the guy who oversaw the total collapse of the Greek economy

@michaelwu7678 3 ай бұрын

Lmao you think he caused the collapse of the Greek economy?

@Towertrips 3 ай бұрын

@@michaelwu7678 no, that’s why I said “oversaw” 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ Greece caused the collapse of their economy by running an unproductive country but paying premium wages

@MikeForster-fl6om 3 ай бұрын

Perhaps he "oversaw" the Greek economy because he was the only Greek parliamentarian with the knowledge and insight to understand why it was so f..ked!!

@michaelwu7678 3 ай бұрын

@Panzerfaustchen Then your original comment makes literally 0 logical sense 👏🤦

@Towertrips 3 ай бұрын

@@michaelwu7678 maybe learn English better or get someone to explain it to you. His actions lost the confidence of the main banking organisations and that’s why he had to resign despite his party winning the election. His policies were not workable and he’d have to embarrassingly backtrack on them

@albionicamerican8806 3 ай бұрын

And yet we got Marxism because Karl Marx's BFF, Friedrich Engels, was an organized and competent guy who knew how to make capitalism work for him. Marx and Engels didn't hesitate to benefit from capitalism when it came to paying their respective bills.

@cytata876 3 ай бұрын

Of course genius, they were, as much as we, living in a capitalist world, in which money is essencial.

@l.w.paradis2108 3 ай бұрын

Plus it was Engels' family business, and Marx was poor despite his brilliant writings.

@l.w.paradis2108 3 ай бұрын

@@cytata876Yeah, lol. Is there, like, some other economy I can partake in to pay the bills?