fantastically ignorant re economics and politics, the meaning of american history, and the role of the british. typical american non-STEM academic. a fop

Yes we curate our profiles, consume the specific products, socially conditioned according to how the capitalist desires us to be, when he checks the facade which is our social media.

The owl of Minerva spreads her wings only at the onset of dusk so it is difficult just to say yet, but I believe Trump will be seen as a world-historical figure.

Love Yanis. But to me, at least, not sure I see the fundamental distinction between today's tech corporations to other dominant corporations of eras past; other than perhaps the tech itself. For example, in terms of market concentration, or personal wealth, the current cadre of tech billionaires are no wealthier or dominant than the likes of Rockefeller or Carnegie et al of their respective eras. As Rockerfeller dominated oil, and Carnegie railroads, their products effectively generated 'rent' from consumers in the form of energy or transport embedded into every product they delivered. In this sense, just as oil and railroads were the new dominant technologies and business models of their day, so too is the technology yielded by today's tech billionaires. On the point about 'consumers providing free labour to tech companies in the form of providing content', this is akin to other industries which have 'no explicit costs' to consumers: advertising in particular comes to mind, ala the phrase, 'if the product is 'free', you are the product'.

Yanis is pretty good but needs to go twenty times deeper into his analysis and ask much deeper questions with a type of curiosity that is characterized as a thirst for knowledge and move towards a far more infinite detailed observational analysis complete with microscopic analysis and examination of far more details. The argument or opinions he has should evolve and transform into hitherto unknown realms and surprising angles of inspection into other undiscovered regions of related analysis even if it were to seem very unrelated. I believe and wonder mind you , that high functioning psychopathy who most likely grew up in relatively stable conditions rule the world as the billionare elites and rulers of nations. All the data points I've looked at points to this conclusion. Patrick Boyle on his KZbin channel talked about a Gregory Macgregor in late august 2024 from the early 1800's who reminds me of Elon Musk! Very similar. Now why is it that nobody wants to talk about the insanity behind the creation and institutions of MONEY!!!!! I believe all forms of insanity are closely related to psychopathy and branch off in evolution to become different species of insanity caused by entropy in matter of which all matter is one and the same as energy postulated by Albert Einstien. The result of all matter is a heat death and flow of time from dissapation into outer space and evaporation of concentrated matter towards eventual complete evaporation into vaccum energy ,returning to the eternal infinite void of nothing or an endless vaccum. Over time which is directional to anything alive or dead made of matter . And time is a byproduct of entropy that creatures of matter sense because a creature senses the entropy out of the matter creatures are made from. And everything and every concept is related through fractal symmetry in the mathematical descriptions of the world and universe beyond this planet which surrounds us! I know none of you can follow me. Not even Yanis. It's true! I can tell that is true because nobody wants to make any observations into the thought processes of the world's billionares and leaders of nations too closely. Nobody wants to question the laws of the United States or Their military industrial complex and what's behind corporations ,governments , and the laws of nations in a deep analysis because the task appears as if it's too daunting to even consider for even the most astute intellects. It's designed that way. By the psychopaths who believe they have superior intelligence based on how easily they can manipulate the dumbest range of humans with IQ's of 100 or less . And those number 4 billion individuals roughly. And keeping the more intelligent humans in the dark and ignorant of all the extra layered mid numbing complexity of rules and regulations. Or laws . THAT"S A FORM OF MIND CONTROL DIRECTLY RELATED TO TECHNOFUEDALISM! And what is behind that my dear slueths? WHO is behind Halliburton? And 3M? And Boeing? And how do they evade the laws so easily? Behind corporations . I currently estimate right now , and it's only a current estimate that between the world's pop. of five percent each of sociopathy and narcissism , plus 1% each of bipolar,schizophrenia,and psychopathy , that is roughly 13% of world population that is insane. By my current estimate which is subject to change based on any mistakes I make in estimating the world and universe around me. So maybe over one billion people on earth currently are looney tunes! And half the planet has an IQ of 100. Or less. Now in science that would be considered a correlation. Or a vast oversight. On a scale so large it can't be seen clearly because it stretches beyond the atmosphere. In all likelihood. Now who's making these laws? And why are they making them? You know it's not easy being Sherlock Holmes. Or Columbo. Unless you enjoy discovering more of the universe for the first time you mind virgins!

Wow. What a brilliant analysis Professor Veraufakis.

So, the commodity is data or information such that the manipulation of the employee class is the desired "commodity" rather than a usable specific commodity such as coffee, yarn, or pencils, (as three examples). It's a focus is, as always, the abuse of the employee class.

Same issues in Sociology and psychology departments in the USA, The fascists were given control of universities and you would not be allowed to get your graduate degree by the fascists of the department if you didn't successfully fake being a fascist also.

ruda REALLY needs a better microphone

In the hunder rules regulations international criminal court law of Islamic of general scientist globally peace ?

What is legally rights for there's finishing for election ?

Decolonize your mind from the cult ideology of sovereignty. Stop voting. Completely de-register as a voter. Being registered is consent, and thereby is complicity in the Gaza genocide no matter which so-called sovereign officer is in office. Stop using a colonial title to your body. Title is consent to be the legal property of a so-called sovereign. Stop saying that you belong to/on a so-called sovereign state. Saying that you come from a so-called sovereign state is consent to be the property of a cult. Go for the no cult state solution. Remember that a statement of sovereignty is not secular. Is the Israeli Shekel legal tender in Palestine? The shekel is a shackle. Same with any other monopoly. The forced separation of people from markets, based on birth place, is still a crime. End Global Apartheid - Publish, MONOPOLY = SLAVERY, on so-called sovereign monopoly money.

to me this new version of capitalism reminds me of World of Warcraft economy if you imagine also that some people have access to cheat codes from the older games

""Make Amazon pay "will not solve the problems. What solve the problem is remove the entire market given to Amazon and other monopolies. Small businesses and majority working class will not benefit anything by increasing taxes for rich. Small business and middle-very low now class will benefit only some market % be allocated to them . Give opportunities to people, so people be motivated to work and give the best of them.

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Love love love Yanis Veroufakis

Everyday people are too scared to have kids

26:32 *What killed capitalism?* “Capital-and that’s the Hegelian dialectic at work.”

Fantastic overview, she's a dictionary of ideas.

Janis, I'm obsessed! It will be an uplifting pleasure to meet you.

This guy is a fascist madman. Don't trust this guy. Everything he says is bs. Free markets are the greatest thing. It's the governments that we need to fight!

Human nature can't be changed. Communism keeps trying and it ends in endless misery. If Varoufakis would be honest with himself, he'd just accept that the family is core and center of any functional and healthy society. Destroying the family is societal suicide. We are in the middle of that.

Physics or metaphysics?

This was GREAT !!!

This dude is endlessly interesting to me. 😊

See Nick Dyer-Witheford's book Cyber Marx chapter 1 Differences Babbage and Marx * Opposing Technological Feudalism * Control [Cybernetics] and Resistance Colin Burgess

Testing out our theory of social reality S.A.R.M The Marxian Dialectical Systems Theory The use of S.A.R.M to critique Soja/ Leferbvre Trialectics • SUBJECTIVITY: Conceived Space • ACTIVITIES: Lived Space • RELATIONSHIPS: "Who owns the space" ~ Owned Space • MEANS: Objective Space TECHNOFEUDALISM page 220 2.3 Rents 2.3.4 Brand Rent ~ S 2.3.1 Financial Rent ~ A 2.3.3 Monopoly Rent ~ R 2.3.2 Ground Rent ~ M Whitfield Unmasking Austerity S. PERSONALISATION A. FINACIALISATION R. PRIVATISATION M. MARKETISATION Clive Burgess Please let me know what you think, thanks

I think Yanis is just pointing to a fact which is related to Luxembourg's account of why there is no "pure capitalism" but always interwoven with feudalism. But I think Bezos is just making money from ground rent. This form of making profit is parasitic on how value-form works, not a radical shifting.

In 1963, Asger Jorn wrote: "The leisure hours is the only thing that is valued in modern society, and the modern form of exploitation is concentrated upon this one point: How can we steal the free hours from the individuals? This is the major problem of modern state-polity." Well, now with Techno-feudalists, this problem has been solved. The user of Facebook, KZbin, X etc. is spending his or her leisure hours for the benefit of Zuckerberg & Co. The alienation is so soft so as to not being felt, really. The old dictum of Benjamin Franklin: ‘Time is money’ gets a new meaning. And Capital has a new Merry-Go-Round. [Asger Jorn: Painter, co-founder of the Cobra-group, and renowned as such. In addition, he was one of the main figures in the Situationist movement. Author of a series of little-known books, among which is "Value and Economy" ]

Walter Benjamin: "boredom is the dream bird that gives flight to the imagination" - a necessary part of creativity, as relevant to well-being as sleep - c.f. Susan Buck-Morss, "Aesthetics and Anaesthetics" - c.f. Sloterdijk-Huyssen-Zizek: post-Enlightenment schizo-cynicism: the weakening of symbolic efficiency brings the imaginary closer to the Real

He speaks of Techno-Fuedalism, while remaining within a totally technological society. This video, KZbin, magic speed transmission, discourse, techniqnue etc etc. Wow ! Hegelian hogwash can go so far, alas but ecological disasters are rolling out dozens a day. Zero talk or concern about the real condition of the Earth. Count your CO2 emissions Yanis The Soothsayer?!?

Marvelous. Why reverberating in the return to Marx framing does all this bring the echo of his most celebrated injunction loudly to the inner ear? Philosophers interpreting endlessly changing nothing... bad infinity indeed.

Throughout the entire history of humankind every regime is a despotic regime. You can go to extraordinary lengths to try to convince yourself your particular society, is run as an (in the making) egalitarian utopia. But isn't, it's either a monarchy, or an oligarchy. Every political system devised, was built as a system of control. For those in power to remain in power. Many different political flavours, same result. The perfect despotic regime is one where the citizens feel a deep connection, to the system of control itself. Even integral to it. These are called sheep... and the more, sheep there are, the less the regime has to use its 'force' to keep control. The sheep are then happy and even police themselves. That's why the West, is so renowned and famous. Its overall population are proud to be their owners sheep. They look down on other less sophisticated despotic systems as archaic. It's the proverbial 'Stockholm syndrome' but on a grand scale. Even when times are tough and their standard of living decreases dramatically, with new each generation.They all still cling to the idea they're part owners, of the nationstate, in which they say they belong to. This is called absolute 'control'. Anyone that sells you a solution, or even a journey to a fairer society is just exploiting, the noisy idealist sheep. There is no way out of this 'very human' political conundrum.

I read Marx when I was young and came away with one idea, namely that the capitalists will never stop trying to extracting surplus value under any circumstances. This seemed untrue at the time, but today the capitalists continue to extract surplus value although the value of their wealth continues grow relative to the lower classes. Today Increasing the inequity of wealth is the entire goal of the capitalist class. This will continue until collapse or the implementation of techo feudalism. Since techo feudalism is centralized power in the hands a few capitalists, control of Artificial Intelligence by these top capitalists might lead to a viable solution.

In the West, the feudal lords ARE the rulers. China is a threat because this is not the case. The US feudal system can not compete because socialism is more efficient. This failure to compete is called Chinese "overcapacity" by the private transnational rentier oligarchy at the top of Wall Street (the deep state). The classical economists beginning with Adam Smith identified the economic rents (unearned income) extracted by feudal lords as the problem preventing a free market that the government should solve. The neoliberal (Austrian, Libertarian, Chicago School Monetarist) counter-enlightenment led by the super wealthy was to not acknowledge any such problem, as the marketing front for their banks (FIRE, finance, insurance and real estate) whose vocation is rent seeking and who directly employ the modern neo feudal government. "Today, commercial banks have the privilege of creating money as credit. They oppose governments creating their own money, because that would make economies less dependent on bankers and bondholders. Opposing Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), banks and bondholders demand that governments finance their budget deficits by borrowing at interest instead of simply creating their own money by fiat." Michael Hudson, The Destiny of Civilization (Kindle locations 4561 to 4564) In MMT, taxes don't pay for anything. Taxes simply extinguish money to keep inflation in check. Some insist that "taxation is theft", but I would argue that rentier income, which by definition derives from ownership alone, a not at all productive extraction from the real economy of producing and consuming goods and services, is theft, and this is what should be taxed. It is important to note that in MMT it is the real economy that matters, not the paper economy. Should money be created for corporate takeovers or education? Financial speculation or infrastructure? For the wealthy to collect interest or health care? All of these things reduce the cost of living, and therefore the cost of labor and production, resulting in a more efficient economy.

Bro drinking vanilla coca cola, he is not boycotting 💀

How does one write volumes when the mind changes every day?

Bourgeois-capitalist industrial nation had been mutated into technological socialist service societies around the year 2000. So, the task of critical philosophy is not to attack TECHNO-FEUDALISM, but enhance the awareness that a modern humanist society should be socio-capitalist and that TECHNO-FEUDALISM should be controled by the state. (as China is doing)

Deep mole CIA asset, Yanis. Paul Mason's mate. Yet to be caught in the act. Fake rebellion. Plausible glib useless philosophy.

When capitalist vendors pay a commission rather than a wage, are we not in the same dynamic?

great interviews on this channel. please keep going

What is the role of a Marxist if machines do all the labor ?

sometimes the no means yes, even "don't know"

The role of the Family had been since WW2 Photograph´S BLITZ KRIEG abused BY the GOVERNMENT to pay some sort of WAR DEBT = WAR translates to NASA ( f.ex Kingdom of Denmark had as an ALLY TO GERMANY therefore TOGETHER WITH GERMANY SURRENDERED ON THE SAME DATE ( but after WW2 UNTIL TODAY, Kingdom of Danmark had been "INVITING" FOREIGNERS from previous Winner Alliance to come this time in history and TO BE THE ONE WHOM ARE BY THEIR OWN DESCENDANTS CHILDREN GOING TO PAY Danmark´S DEBT, also by SACRIFICIAL RITUALS for the sake of Life Insurance PAYMENT created by some Government´ EMPLOYEE on other parent´S kids and the SAME THING with massSHOOTINGS in USA f.ex ) = and our Politicians had been SexTRAFFICKING other parent´S and ANOTHER Cousin´s parallel similar comparable per DNA BloodLINEAGES in every possible way and with the help from Military/ Medical Field = in order to PAY the DEBT that the STATE GOVERNMENT HAS . So..., MANY OF YOU WHOM HAD EVER during your life BEEN HAVING A SURGERY of your LOWER DOWN PARTS OF THE BODY even when you were a child or as a female under anesthesia = YOUR PERSONAL REproductive GENOME HAD BEEN STOLEN for the sake of someone´s else Wishfull thinking about CROSS-BREEDING and YOU HAVE KIDS SOMEWHERE IN THIS WORLD AND YOU WERE NEVER INFORMED ABOUT IT BECAUSE THEY WHEN THEY CONDEMNED HOLOCAUST OR GENOCIDE or what ever they call it = they CONdemned it ONLY BECAUSE THEY WANTED TO STEAL THE PATENT ON IT AND MAKE IT GLOBAL and by it TO DESTROY YOUR ROOTS or YOUR OWN "Tree Of LIFE" in THEIR "BOTANICAL Garden" ( those "numbers" on the arms of the jews on KZ camp = were SOCIAL IDentity Number = but in OUR MODERN DAYS , TOP MiniSTARS are spying ON CIVILIANS in order to STEAL Intellectual Property AND to BREAK HIPPA Laws and to committ RICO crimes but thanks to SPY AGENTS at home and abroad therefore NEVER BEEN HELD ACCOUNTABLE for 80 YEARS as Top Politicians ) . That means that you LOOSE LifeENERGY and HEALTH (which is WEalth) and YOU BECOME POOR (WITHOUT the POWER = powerTY ) when something like that is done to you in order to DRAIN YOUR Life ENERGY (you do NOT LIVE LONG Life but you are ONLY SURVIVING and therefore the GOVERNMENT´s Top Politicians STEAL YOUR PENSIONS SAVINGS and later they MOVE TO ANOTHER COUNTRY and START ALL OVER AGAIN as a BloodLINEAGE to RULE SOME NEW Principality COUNTRY/ Region/ TOWN as ADMINISTRATORS of the Budget , but they in Previous Country need YOUR COUSIN SIMILAR comparable DNA to BE BURIED as SKELETON BONES under THEIR NAME ) without you been Informed about it (on top of that Policians in EUROPE have off course ALSO those type of "Forcible Adoption" such as PrimeMiniSTAR META FRAUDerik´s had proposed IN EVEN BIGGER NUMBERS). They say there are 9 BILLION PEOPLE ?

The message needs to get through to the worker drones

That last question was just so unfair. Yes, Bernie blew it!

1:07:04 “… Some day the nations of Europe may be ready to merge their national identities and create a new European Union - the United States of Europe. If and when they do, a European Government will take over all the functions which the Federal government now provides in the U.S., or in Canada or Australia. This will _involve_ the creation of a ‘full economic and monetary union’. But it is a dangerous error to believe that monetary and economic union can precede a political union or that it will act (in the words of the Werner report) ‘as a leaven for the evolvement of a political union which in the long run it will in any case be unable to do without’. For if the creation of a monetary union and Community control over national budgets generates pressures which lead to a breakdown of the whole system it will prevent the development of a political union, not promote it.” [italics in the original] -Nicholas Kaldor, “The Dynamic Effects Of The Common Market,” _New Statesman,_ 12 March 1971

To add to my post: I have engaged in what I call "alienated labor" for my entire working life. I was able to retire at 59 with a pension but I had done everything I could to protect the families who were robbed of their children because bureaucrats decided what a good home environment was by basically the concepts of white people. Even Black workers were willing to engage in racist policies against families in Children's Protective Services. In a just society all families could benefit but capitalists take the largest share of profits, real estate and love bullet proof luxury cars.

I love Yanis! I would like the US to have Diem25 to extend to the US. Perhaps I could spearhead it?

this disavowel is interesting in relation to the right. "i dont need to understand the right, i just need to know its wrong", an overt disavowel of actual critical thought: if anything it is the reverse, a true left feels directly this fascist temptation: else, it CANNOT be rejected.