Yanis Varoufakis: Capitalism has become 'techno-feudalism' | UpFront

A recent Oxfam study found that since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, the world’s richest 10 billionaires have seen a wealth increase of half a trillion dollars - enough to pay for every person on the planet to get a vaccine.
In this UpFront special, Marc Lamont Hill discusses with economist and former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis what is driving the staggering wealth inequalities and how governments are offering socialism for the rich, and austerity for the rest.

[@brendano1204]

socialism for financiers, austerity for the people... sums up the last recession

[@guilhermegoldman]

My PR use to say he is liberal at economy and conservative at the mores - more like liberal at the rich and conservative at the poor!

[@marcelinoperez2926]

Brendan O you got it, I agree. Reset for the people

[@frankieboyer9375]

thats just capitalism

[@patriciomalbran3737]

@@frankieboyer9375 sorry mate, thats keynesianism

[@patriciomalbran3737]

@Hitme 2moretimes sorry mate but the biggest issues capitalism almost every time (If not always) stem from the govt. then keynesianism never sorted out anything you can see it now, in the 20s and with the marshal plan. Also at least capitalism works in real life, not like socialism.

[@JustRockMySoul]

Techno-Feudalism is an excellent description, thanks Yanis.

[@marcelinoperez2926]

China is everywhere now

[@DiandraStarShine]

oh, *please.* technology and fancy words🙄don't change the fact that it's still *capitalism,* period.

[@rainer7210]

@@marcelinoperez2926 China was made great again , by US. Profit don‘t care any system.

[@marcelinoperez2926]

@@rainer7210 agree I know

[@Figures-us9wt]

@@DiandraStarShine Bro, maybe research the topic. This is not capitalism.

[@taiven.lechevalier]

Can we just take a moment and appreciate how excellent of a job this interviewer did? Really top notch work.

[@HiVizCamo]

Yes he placed the softballs on the tee very well, very good note reading skills too. Top notch.

[@carlsontse3622]

I was thinking the EXACT same thing. Top quality journalism

[@carlsontse3622]

@Alexander Franke you definitely wear clown shoes with a comment like that

[@HiVizCamo]

@@carlsontse3622 More Water Army paratroopers, always shilling these comments sections. The grifter's accomplices are so easy to spot now.

[@pobandeddy6721]

First half of the interview was great. Second half was fact-free ideological garbage.

[@longbeachboy57]

This guy knows about 10 000 times more about american politics and history than the average american...

[@ronaldmitchell3665]

...certainly, he hasnt been at ground zero of the cabal for his life. He’s outside looking in to America, but that is good . sky news Australia has good perspectives too, thx....

[@elingrome5853]

@@ronaldmitchell3665 eh? He’s literally part of the cabal 🤣

[@yonisali3879]

To be fair it is not that much of stretch. Compared to Greece. The history needed to rember does not go that far back and the politics follows a very predictable flow everytime. Dude got a cool name too coupled with southern European sensiblties and intelligence that might get mistaken for snobbery in places where intelligence does not hold sway.

[@meisterlymanu5214]

thats not difficult

[@friedrichnietzsche2557]

Americans only know burgers kingg

[@ndeshimonakamungu645]

"They are not working for humanity they are working for financiers "

[@destruction1928]

Humanity is a bunch of stupid people that keep breeding without the ability to feed their own children, and expecting others to sustain it, what happened in America is Americans problem, not anyone else.

[@guppy0112]

These financiers (the fund managers and traders at investment banks anyway) in turn are working for Joe and Jane public, as it is our pensions and investments that they manage!

[@destruction1928]

​@Vicky Zabaras Historically right-wing people killed way fewer people than lefties, the worse thing is that lefties killed their own people in hundred of millions, not wanting to share resources has nothing to do with want you dead, you are not entitled to it, It's not my obligation to keep you alive.

[@humboldthammer]

Me, me, me, me meme. God said, "Enough Trump Worship." but less than 7% have ever "heard" God. That's normal. That's why it is such a serious SIN to mislead the sheep. Televangelist False Prophets told tens of millions to vote for Trump -- God's CHOSEN ONE. Election Fraud is one more DEEP FAKE EWE.

[@bayroncastillo7653]

hard

[@yiasemide]

Marc Lamont Hill and Yanis Varoufakis: a brilliant pairing here.

[@GUSCRAWF0RD]

"what they [the US] did is re-distribute wealth from the poorest european countries to the wealthiest ones' financiers" you're right this is a brilliant way to spin 'they broadly paid their bills and bought stuff from europeans that also broadly pay their bills and made stuff to sell'

[@mnati25]

The man is well read and impeccable credentials

[@GUSCRAWF0RD]

@@mnati25 example?

[@buckrogers7115]

Marc Lamont hill is an idiot

[@GUSCRAWF0RD]

@@buckrogers7115 he's pretty smart he's just not playing devil's advocate

[@SensemakingNL]

Finally. A real journalist. Questions that actually invite interesting perspectives. Well informed and poised!

[@toyotaprius79]

Imagine how sad this state of civilisation must be in for an acceptable level of journalistic integrity to be celebrated?

[@islabee94]

He was good, I enjoyed the interview too!

[@islabee94]

@@toyotaprius79 why so bitter? Why not congratulate someone on doing a good job just because others aren't doing so? That makes absolutely no sense.

[@Dan-ud8hz]

"If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed. Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution. So far, the trend seems to be toward the second option, with technology driving ever-increasing inequality." Stephen Hawking

[@GoToGuy222]

Read "The Midas Plague" by Frederick Phol

[@SapientEudaimonia]

@@GoToGuy222 Could you tell us why?

[@GoToGuy222]

@@SapientEudaimonia This was published in 1954 as a science fiction book. It is a world where robots were advanced to the point where they can do all labor with little or no direction. Society felt that they needed to not waste products made by robots. So they need to make sure that all products are consumed and not wasted. So if you were wealthy you could live in a 2-bedroom bungalow and eat two meals per day and ride your bike. The POOR had to work hard at consuming. They were forced to live in a 30-room mansion, drive 4 cars per day and eat 12 meals per day with no waste. You were cursed with consuming. Oh, and all the robots were connected to the main center with a radio. 1954

[@MikBak1814]

@@GoToGuy222 Thanks for explaining this book. Sounds Orwellian. I'll read it based on your explanation alone.

[@MikBak1814]

Common knowledge in the historical record for a hundred years. Either we were too naive to think it would ever be any different; or power systems were too dishonest. And probably a good mixture of both.

[@joewyatt2407]

Yanis is a brilliant guy and was treated so poorly but no surprise why.... he speaks sense and the world is awakening

[@edwardk3]

In particular where they determined yanis to be a member of the "defective gender". I was particularly impressed that this got by the hate speech detectors

[@muskrat477]

He had the EU pegged

[@hansjurgenochsenfahrt6176]

Webster Tarple - before he sold out to demtards in new yourk drumbeated for him.... and when the won... ohhhh this is nato.... and EU.... ohh - and he rolled over... now we have the bizarre game of Rettungsschirm.. umbrella ... with the Euro - planned to fail... and a massive transfer of wealth to these - states.... essential for nato.... and military industrial media complex... they were treated as winners charming in eu bureocrathy.... the one got dropped out... the other here - went biking again... all from one club of spoiled brats - with elite education in sinister private schools... from a certain tribe... sorry... Microsoft gates is caesar.... stands for the corporate accumulation of power worldwide... and we have a scary relationship of leftists and rights - to galton and the charming with education camps - autor of my fair lady... fabian society... do not trust these screw ups...

[@chandir7752]

is the world really awakening tho..? You make it sound as if it's a progress that's already in motion and will complete itself automatically. But I think we have a lot of work ahead of us if we want to make everyone see straight.

[@wolfgangkranek376]

@@hansjurgenochsenfahrt6176 Correct, politicians like Varoufakis are actually part of the problem.

[@stbsabs4370]

Varoufakis as usual makes great and significant points. What is new is the excellent questions and interview from the journalist side for the first time.

[@vinm300]

Yes, the interviewer is on the ball.

[@stevefromsaskatoon830]

Indeed

[@jacovawernett3077]

Truly. 111%

[@Validboy]

so good i watched it twice... I see Varoufakis I click..

[@patrickvangelder3349]

Varoufakis is as boring as ever, always whining about the EU, but never acknowledging that Greece was a failed state who entered the EU based on lies, they hardly have a decent tax system. The 2008 crisis was hardly felt in the North of Europe because our tax and social systems are solid, he is only talking about Greece but as I said that country was just badly governed

[@diogotxx]

Yanis is one of the most brilliant voices I've known in recent times. Always good to hear his thoughts.

[@ralphjackson8295]

This was the best interview I have ever had the privilege to see.

[@ralphjackson8295]

@@ts8404 Really? Well, I have to say, they know how to hire good reporters because he did a really good job.

[@GeraltBosMang]

The quality of Al Jaz reporting is getting better and better.

[@EuDouArteHipHopArtCulture21]

I agree ,

[@fullmetaljacket1803]

Really is one of the only news outlets that isn't completely designed to sway the masses into making decisions to enrich the top

[@Q_QQ_Q]

Al Jazira is good for outside Qatar or Qatar subjects

[@777jones]

Al Jazeera utterly humiliates the quality American media. Among the worst we have are Fox News, MSNBC, CNN. Next worst are NPR, Infowars and the New York Times. These are all pure, proud political advocacy organizations. Actual journalism still exists at local levels in the USA but not really at national level.

[@theyredistortingyourrhthym126]

0 virus Millions AWAKE

[@alishahid9253]

The host is brilliant

[@itsallsausagetome4059]

very principled as well, when I started the video I said isn't that the guy who was fired from CNN over a pro Palestine speech, so googled his name and found out I was right, was worried his career would be ruined for life, so super delighted to see that Aljazeera didn't jump on the bandwagon with other networks in boycotting him or setting him as an example. The Zionist influence in America is insane.

[@alishahid9253]

@@itsallsausagetome4059 wow, that's huge..

[@denbel426]

@@itsallsausagetome4059 you are absolutely right he's an American of African descent and a scholar

[@j-dub.d-tray]

too smart for CNN!

[@libanwarsame5428]

His name is Marc Lamont Hill. He was contributor for CNN before he was fired from the broadcaster after advocating justice for Palestine at the UN.

[@hannespeters1055]

Only in feudalism, the peasants had land to grow food on.

[@nataschavisser573]

Now they can make youtube videos and beg for money on patron.

[@northofyou33]

Hannes, exactly.

[@MAM-pd9mx]

@@nataschavisser573 now everybody has the freedom to start a business and become millionaire... the trick is that's not possible

[@Roboprogs]

No, they didn’t. Usually the aristocracy owned the land, and the serfs could only stay by paying tribute. Thus, the comparison to “rent seeking behavior”, as opposed to actual creation by business.

[@Roboprogs]

@Arsperficit 37 - absolutely. There’s always a warlord or clan of such. Some are more “just” than others, but any power vacuum would be filled.

[@W4ldgeist]

What an amazing interviewer! Highly intelligent questions, insight and follow ups. How unusual compared to other mass media. Thanks for that. Keep doing what you're doing!

[@303machine]

Interviewer is hypocrite moron. He talk about "structural racism" but for sure he would not talk about real racial abuse, "structural racism" from Arabs (non-white people) against coloured, black workers in Arab (muslim) countries because he work for Al Jazeera. Another atempt to smear on white people, despite Greek people to whom leftard Yanis belongs, never had colonies nor (black) slaves, not that it matters.

[@mr.t.1237]

I read Yanis's book called "Talking to my daughter" great read.

[@mutanazublond4391]

He's a fraude .... nobody radical, get's this much media coverage ...NOBODY ...

[@MrHitomiplum]

@@mutanazublond4391 He can get as much or more media coverage. They know it doesn't matter... your response proves that.

[@wendychee4978]

Thank you for this discussion. Many, many more people need to see this.

[@Jaymo00]

Yes this was a wonderful interview! Shame that we don't have more politicians like this in the USA

[@GladysAlicea]

“Wasted economic energy,” says it all. Great interview, Professor.

[@clodoaldosantos5333]

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[@clodoaldosantos5333]

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[@clodoaldosantos5333]

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[@clodoaldosantos5333]

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[@clodoaldosantos5333]

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[@Revolution-tl5wo]

This is an impressive interview. I really appreciate the thorough and substantial nature of the questions the interviewer asks; the way he gives plenty of space for his guest to answer fully and without attempts to re-frame what he says; and the quality of the answers given. Insightful and very worthwhile. Thank you!

[@dariuslankarian3282]

Capitalism for the poor socialism for the rich.

[@julianchung9215]

Or vice versa like in USA

[@craig5261]

Socialise the losses, privatise the profits

[@dariuslankarian3282]

@@craig5261 Definitely. Bailouts, QE bunch of pathetic man running to the corrupt government for tax payer stimulus. They are lucky individualism has made the public so docile otherwise there should have been an uprising by now.

[@leonngg232]

For me is Capitalism is good if there are no businessman inside the politics because that politicians control the economy that is why they become more richer.,the leftist hate oligarch but if there are no Capitalist?the world has no change.

[@craig5261]

@@leonngg232 there is no capitalism. Instead we have crony capitalism, rigged markets, price signal manipulation, central bankster theft & corruption. All supported by an ideology called “keynesianism”

[@jasoneverich8284]

I can't stop thinking about how awesome Yanis' kitchen looks.

[@williamhornabrook8081]

I did an ECON degree. Yanis is an eloquent and accurate source of economic commentary whenever I see him. There is no one economist that we should all follow but Yanis is one of the more useful ones.

[@SapientEudaimonia]

Which others would you recommend as well, William?

[@brunemountaineagle]

Thank you Marc and Yanis for this discussion. As someone who played a major role in Occupy Wall Street with the Global Revolution Live stream team, this conversation is one of the most important I’ve seen since our movement almost a decade ago. I’m working on compiling my photos and videos to do exhibits and discussions in upstate NY where I live, now.

[@metalextras]

This needs to be translated to every human language...

[@philizeed8938]

I agree!!

[@bodyguardik]

Lenin predictad that more than 100 years ago. Just *read Lenin*

[@arkadiusztrzesniewski4237]

@@bodyguardik Every human language and beyond. Including klingon.

[@kaninma7237]

Chris Hedges, Richard Wolff and Yanis Varoufakis, three of my favorites. Thanks for sharing this!

[@craig5261]

All Marxists... what a surprise

[@patriciomalbran3737]

@@craig5261 hahah these guys always live in an ecochamber. Thats why they dont understand economics

[@hibye7385]

@Hitme 2moretimes Wow, you really went all out on this moron. I applaud you.

[@PK-re3lu]

@Hitme 2moretimes Very well put! Excellent.

[@skynet4496]

They are still idiots, it's not the pandemic that causes poverty but the idiotic response of lockdowns that you support you sell out cowards

[@kimmacdermotroe2957]

Marc's well researched questions made this one of Yanis's most informative interviews.

[@Erwana1985]

mind-blowing interview, why it is not possible to find these kinds of interviews in the western media? He would have gotten maximum 10 seconds of talk time in any american network program

[@hellonihaocomoestas]

"the top 0.01 percent are doing very well, thank you."

[@meikvincenco1584]

I would like to know how they figured that out considering that these people's finances are not exactly public knowledge and even my government does not know how much wealth I, an average earner, own.

[@steliosmandalos9352]

@@meikvincenco1584 are you sure that "they" don't know how much "you" own?

[@meikvincenco1584]

@@steliosmandalos9352 How would they? If I buy something worth a certain amount and leave it at my house for 20 years and it increases in value due to it being rare then how would the government know? How would they know the value of my house for that matter? They know what I originally paid for it, not how much home improvement I did over the years.

[@rogerthornhill1491]

Such a small amount of people explain why that matters?

[@tiaandeswardt7741]

Well, kinda by definition, but yeah.

[@laurajames7809]

Excellent interview questions, host is smart and quick. Well done

[@quochung9370]

They are already trying to bring back serfdom with the "great reset".

[@terencefield3204]

Very good. One overdue.

[@terencefield3204]

@LazicStefan Well much to my surprise, the reality of income and asset inequality in the US has increased over the last 45 years EXCEPT for the period of the Trump administration. Not perhaps expected by the left, or by me, but nonetheless true. In the world entire, poverty is declining; in the least competitive of the old first world, it shows no sign of improving. Socialist state-interventionist policies show no sign of correcting this, very sadly. Climate change will reduce the condition of life of nearly all people, to the point of collapse. I think that is unavoidable.

[@Ontheroadtourism]

After watching so many woeful interviews this stands head and shoulders above everything I have seen. At last someone who has a real understanding of what is happening and is able to explain it in an understandable way.

[@JM-xd9ze]

Great interview. Wish it was longer.

[@edwardk3]

In particular where they determined yanis to be a member of the "defective gender". I was particularly impressed that this got by the hate speech detectors

[@stevemartin4249]

14:30 - Also a dirty little not-so-secret behind the kabuki-mask of Japan Inc. 15:50 - The central Bank of Japan is doing the same thing through 'financial easing' under the cover of addressing the pandemic. 18:30 - Kudos to Varoufakis for acknowleding on those his privilege of a boutique lockdown is possible.

[@chrisgadsby5700]

I love how Yanis speaks truth to power, even though my political outlook is different. Being European I've visited Greece and it's islands several times so I have great respect for his efforts trying to save his country from the EU. Btw I also have 2 of his great books.

[@LLShiningOtter]

Manners and respect oh what a wonderful thing to hear between two people “will you allow me to challenge that” oh thank you thank you gentlemen I so needed to see a respectful discourse

[@oneroyalpriest8784]

Marc, nice to see you again my friend!! CNN's loss

[@emaak]

Absolutely their loss !

[@Nostalgia_Addict]

"my friend"

[@vinm300]

2:30 "“They had learned nothing and forgotten nothing.” Talleyrand on the Bourbon monarchy. Louis XVI was executed after the French Revolution (1789) His son Louis XVIII was restored after Napoleon Louis XVIII died in 1824 and his brother Charles X became king. Charles tried to rule as an autocrat, disregarding the constitution. There was a minor protest in 1830 ; inexplicably Charles' nerve went, and he fled to England. Talleyrand wasn't referring to this episode but it nicely fits his apophthegm.

[@amurdera4409]

When you distort the truth society goes into chaos

[@andrelemire9915]

The Prince De Talleyrand was very precise /idiots always stay idiots!

[@HermesSonofZeus]

Thank you for explaining this. I'm an archaeologist/historian, but my background is in a different field. Also: 'apophthegm' = great word. Thanks again!

[@user-lq2bs7gm2m]

I really cannot describe how proud I feel that this man is member of parliament in my country.

[@Len_J_]

Excellent from Yannis. Extra points from the host. Wow. Clearly very intellgent. Don't get this on the BBC. Fantastic upload thank you

[@brainseagle]

When the oppressed recognize their shared enemy as a philosophic pessimism about recognizing ones own humanity therefore others ability to recognize us. Make decisions on solidarity, unite the oppressed. Yonis is inspiring.

[@rowlandmoris9000]

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[@rowlandmoris9000]

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[@rowlandmoris9000]

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[@lennyemanuel924]

Great discourse. Kudos to the host for asking the right questions. Kudos to the guest for clear responses. Great work.

[@rowlandmoris9000]

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[@rowlandmoris9000]

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[@rowlandmoris9000]

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[@rowlandmoris9000]

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[@markd.holloman5187]

Yanis is my most favored individual on the planet currently; thank you Yanis for your clear brilliance, and unpacking the complex topics of Global finance for average peoples. I look forward to reading your publications, especially Technofudalism.

[@johannbrandstatter7419]

Honest, open, down to earth, not afraid to speak the truth - what a brilliant individual ! I hope we will see and hear a lot more of him in future. Europe, the people that is, would derserve a man like him, not the formerly unemployed and otherwise unemployable " nobles " that they push into so called leadership roles.

[@cityofgardenerssg318]

By making the poor poorer, the US have destroyed a huge sector of her market because the poor cannot afford the goods

[@sacrificezone]

Consumer markets are growing in other parts of the world now (witness the growth of the Chinese middle class) so now corporations will sell to them instead of Americans...I don’t think it makes much difference to them...

[@rext8949]

The US ?? The elites all over the world including the so called poor countries.

[@cityofgardenerssg318]

@Thomas Hellberg China have created a market as big as the US by alleviating the poor at home. She is also helping Africa to become a market by enabling their economy through the construction of vital infrastructures such as roads, rails and electricity supply

[@humboldthammer]

The corporations are global, and thanks to "financialization" they make more money borrowing at low interest rates and lending it back to the government, by buying Treasuries, for a GUARANTEED Profit. Works for THEM.

[@StaggerLee68]

They don't want you to get the goods, they want you to want to get the goods. You'll work harder and harder to get the goods until you are not useful to them anymore. When you break, you will be replaced. Sounds fun, eh?

[@PissMenn]

This is the best discussion ever about current financial situation. Thanks ALJ!

[@trygverran8366]

Great to see these important voices platformed, speaking important truths. Thank you.

[@jeanneelliott7243]

Finally something that makes sense during these crazy days! Thanks for this information.

[@johnmcbride7743]

Presenter thinking well on his feet. Good job, mate.

[@infinitysteppingstone331]

Both gentleman are so refreshing to watch compared to the garbage in most media.

[@BoydGilbreath]

We are all in prison. This started about fifty years ago.

[@NathanCroucher]

Thatcher, Reagan?

[@pauljacobson2207]

Evil Geniuses by Kurt Andersen

[@GUSCRAWF0RD]

😂😂😂 words spoken by someone who's never really been to prison

[@thorkmunch]

@Mogulis Valar Shut up

[@collybeans586]

Thats how I feel!

[@quickenbeam]

Thank you for the excellent questions, Marc Lamont Hill! I salute you, sir!

[@prasadpapolu]

Extraordinary clear vision! Unfortunately the world doesn’t appear to be benefitting from such great vision!

[@yoniwolf92]

Yanis is such an intelligent man he is so on point and succinct when he speaks.

[@pneron2032]

Just like Lenin and Mugabe.

[@Rb39-ej5hh]

@@pneron2032 Just like Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King Jr as well. It can go both ways.

[@pneron2032]

@@Rb39-ej5hh What do Mandela and MLK have in common with Yanis?

[@Rb39-ej5hh]

@@pneron2032 Besides from being good public speakers like Yanis, they were both progressives who sought to improve the material conditions for people. How does Yanis have anything in common with Mugabe?

[@pneron2032]

@@Rb39-ej5hh Yanis is a rhetorician and self promoter. A millionaire socialist who did a photoshoot in his luxury central Athens penthouse apartment *literally* drinking champagne when he was finance minister, when Greeks were *literally* starving outside during the debt crisis. But his rhetoric is all about the poor and downtrodden, so that is enough. It's words, not deeds that count after all. Right?

[@diogenesdevletoglou6190]

Extremely well made interview here, superb mojo for both!

[@jelmervandegraaff]

I loved this interview but I can't get over the fact that Yanis would make a perfect bond villain..

[@BabeTheAstrologer]

Because he is so sweet and nice?

[@angeloconn1]

Hahahaha ur fakked

[@kylewilliams8114]

"I'm sorry Mr. Bond, but the monarchy must go, along with the techno-feudalism that pays for your toys. You can join us in a better world, or you can disappear like the old world. By means of my SPACE LAZER!"

[@mindcrusherxx]

Is he gonna hit Bond with Avada Kedavra while he's enjoying a martini? If there's a perfect role to cast him, that's Voldemort lmao

[@brianwheeldon4643]

A great interview to use as a reference and measure against that which continues to happen world wide. Thanks to Yanis Varoufakis and Marc Lamont Hill the interviewer.

[@Eusantdac]

Yanis is great! Always a pleasure to listen to him. Thank You Al Jazeera.

[@deejay8ch]

My takeaway: Engaging with a technology platform (or a huge multinational corporation for that matter) is essentially having part of your associated wealth (attention, affiliation, time, money, personal data) extracted by a virtual autocracy aka doing a deal with the devil. We're selling our cultural, ethical, social and individual souls one digital interaction at a time. What a truly frightening cost for us all in the not so distant future (it's already beyond too much).

[@balleraap007]

So 1776

[@rioyoman]

Another great example of great journalism by Al Jazeera. Varoufakis is a unique intellectual of our era.

[@olfrud]

that interviewer is a real journalist. something rare these days.

[@charlessoper7686]

I like Yanis, he tells it straight, even if he's sometimes naive about power brokers as his book reveals.

[@iamme9107]

Laymen should go easy and be kind to each other in these times. Everyone is hurting.

[@dystopian2153]

👏

[@davidcanatella4279]

Money and equality will never live in the same neighbourhood

[@oyotundookubgegwa8790]

Well, maybe people wouldn't rely on Amazon and big box stores if YOU DIDN"T SHUT EVERY SMALL BUSINESS DOWN

[@nameless592]

Although am going to miss Mehdi Hassan am so freaking happy to Marc Lamont Hill

[@alexluke_again]

what you were watching here is how interviews should be conducted. MSNBC, Fox News and the rest of mainstream media could learn a thing or two

[@amandap9332]

Problem is, those media outlets are working exactly how the corporations, who pay them, want them to.

[@zblofu]

Realy great questions! I love it when a journalist asks questions that I am actually curious about.

[@JagoKestis]

Yanis seems like a great thinker and speaker, and also I applaud the journalist/reporter for being on his game with his research and not just being a wooden orator of questions 👏

[@cinemaartsgroup]

As long as our Politicians are in bed with Wall Street and Financiers, we will suffer. So be careful who you vote for!

[@cathycrago2722]

So true

[@kidaria1333]

the financiers and intelligents services work and in hand and are so powerful these days every politican who goes against their agenda is going to have a car accident, drugs found in their office or something similar.

[@robert-vx3jq]

does are vote really matter? who voted for biden or harris ,i cant find a single person ,who admits that one and trump was an act of desperation and failed strategy , i really dont think voters had much to do with ,dnc got exposed for a minute , but all forgotten so soon , they had more expensive strategy 2020/21

[@lorrainewest7408]

@@kidaria1333 Aha The Pompeo CIA Man tra he said, We Cheat, We lie, We Steal. How Sad. Put it all together & it spells for me Doomsday.

[@cryptout]

Well said Yanis, Techno Feudalism is a great term to describe these companies!

[@pt5820]

What a great interview fantastic job guys, I missed this interview until now. Thanks for showing it again.

[@trasher84]

Loved the books from this guy, truly inspiring human

[@foreigncontaminant2015]

Varoufakis, brilliant as always!

[@transcribeded]

Marc, excellent interview, buddy. You are a pro and I wish you all the best.

[@TeflonThoughts]

man- marc lamont hill did a Outstanding job! well researched, great questions, and did NOT interrupt the guest!

[@eagle-wingedturtle201]

Very refreshing to see this conversation in the mainstream

[@mealexmailex311]

An engaging convo... The guest is blunt and host is good

[@anthonycullen8633]

brilliant and insightful interview, and interviewer bravo to both

[@alvinernest4406]

Fantastic interview! Yanis as usual pure genius...

[@nottheguru1]

Marc Lamont Hill was gr8, best questions, reporting I have heard in a while. Varoufakkis was gr8 as well. I will be returning to him.

[@xavilamo]

Really like the journalist. here.

[@chrissain3679]

Very Engaging movie from the beginning to the end apparently my view on the solution is to venture into business

[@infinitecuriosity9210]

Excellent investigative reporter, great interview, open dialogue, loved it, just excellent 🇨🇦🙏🏻

[@edwardk3]

In particular where they determined yanis to be a member of the "defective gender". I was particularly impressed that this got by the hate speech detectors.

[@warrengosling]

This is a fantastic interview that you'd never see on mainstream news

[@cleopatraoatcake7364]

Great interview with the brilliant Yanis Varoufakis!

[@charlenek11]

This is a really fascinating conversation and I appreciate you having Yanis Varoufakis on to speak. The only quibble I have with this discussion is this impression that the United States did so much better in its covid-19 response. Do Europeans spend more money in the right places, where is United States designed it's covid-19 to bail out the stock market in the wealthy. They shot trillions of dollars into the economy, but barely any of it hit normal people. We didn't have to spend as much at the top If we had spent more at the bottom, so I don't think that this analysis was quite as nuanced as it needed to be.

[@betaleonisdeneb4230]

CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR NEW SHOW!

[@bonegrubber]

No one forces you to go into debt, no one forces you to buy health care... but that snickers ice-cream bar is something else! No one can resist those!

[@joekonopka9753]

The perfect 3rd grader thought, thanks

[@F.W.I.S.]

Thanks Yanis for such an erudite interview!

[@cztrca]

lol. I talked about this back in Uni and they laughed at me.

[@dominostimes2119]

Bc they benefit themselves of that system they don’t have to fight to get it You don’t bite the hand that nourishes you

[@glasrazuma933]

They should. Former "minister of finance" of Greece is giving us lessons, really, he should be worried about his own country.

[@cztrca]

@@glasrazuma933 lol. Thats partially fair. I think one of the bigger misconceptions about Greek finance policy is not that it is ruinous as many suggest, but rather the impact of the burdens of debt, and other integral outside factors can't be understated. The fact that modern day so called neoliberalism acts basically as a new form of Feudalism, is no longer a fringe theory.

[@glasrazuma933]

@@cztrca It is fringe still because those concepts are only accepted in far left circles.

[@cztrca]

@@glasrazuma933 What parts do you disagree with and why?

[@angelrobinson334]

*No 1: Don't Only Hope On Government's Responds On security Matter's And Economy growth,* *No 2: As An Individual You Should Be Safeguarded And Also Look For Different Self Business And Trade Not Only Waiting on Betterment of Stock market activities,* *No 3: Most Important Always Save The Little You Can And Think Of What To Do With It When It Become Good For Capital,* *Because Government Have Failed Us In Aspect Of Security, Economics Activities And Other Trading Systems.*

[@maxwelljoshua7438]

@Frank Terry Yes sure Bitcoin trade is great unlike the stock market and other financial market Bitcoin has no centralized location since it operates 24hour's in different parts of the world

[@juankeith9355]

Currently the rich stay rich by spending like the poor and investing while the poor stay poor by spending like the rich yet not investing like the rich

[@lupitamary8973]

Wise words that's just the fact and also what is happening day by day

[@sarakaren2716]

I'm just so Lucky to have Dr Benjamin as my investor he really understand all methods of Bitcion

[@christianjessie1471]

We get to see people remain poor due to ignorance and selfishness

[@Savantrez]

Finally an intelligent conversation.

[@szymborska]

I wasn't sure where Marc had gone and today I saw two of his Al Jazeera interviews- happy to see he's somewhere better than CNN. Keep up the great work, wherever you are!

[@brainseagle]

When the oppressed recognize their shared enemy as a philosophic pessimism about recognizing ones own humanity therefore others ability to recognize us. Make decisions on solidarity, unite the oppressed.

[@diggleboy]

Great interview! Really enjoyed the questions, discussion and answers that were given.

[@TheCarlosgrau]

What an example of a well conducted interview. Thanks

[@cowboy-alex]

Excellent discussion. Thank you.

[@petergrant6303]

Brilliant discussion between two good minds. Keynesian fiscal and monetary intervention during economic stress should be applied equally between Capital, Labor, and Rents, a la Thomas Piketty. And maybe a 4th split could be added for the "weak" members of society, the aged, youth, minorities, and women. This would combat and mitigate the "economic feudalism " described here.

[@cmathews5909]

The monetary interventions "rises all boats" and "trickles down", Pete. But seriously, isn't capital and rental class one of the same? Lastly, for what I've understood two members of the "weak" were legislatively made so; had little to do with economic ability.

[@Aria-pt7to]

Yannis Varoufakis looks like he just came from a 'techno-rave' party

[@bazle64]

The black host is gorgeous

[@ignacio5283]

@@bazle64 I'm male, hetro. but what you said made me smile. Good on you Dee

[@MAM-pd9mx]

the man is like Yuval Noah Harari but on steroids

[@malechi1973]

@Ari a because how a person looks is so much more important than what they’re saying, right? 🤦🏼‍♂️

[@taneterankh]

I was wondering where this guy went after I stopped seeing him on CNN. Good to see him still working his trade.

[@markmelton4507]

So good to see an interviewer not rudely interrupting the interviewee with his own stupid train of thought. They were both deeply impressive. Does anyone know who he is?