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Crave Flashing night confessing in the middle of the burn Hold it …
Grace Come on won't you help me I was lost in the…
Hypnotized You're all mine You're all mine I can't get you out of…
Le début Je fais les 100m dans la ville Teille de jack…
Mois Verse 1 (Yani) J'te promets d'être honnête Un petit tooour s…
Ne t'en fais pas pour moi Je vais donner ma confiance j'aurais m?me lacher d'avance j'…
No Son de Calle Échate pa' atrás llegaron los piratas , la nueve en el…
SOLO Personne ne changera qui je suis, qui j'aimerais Personne ne…
T'en Fais Pas Pour Moi Je vais donner ma confiance j'aurais m?me lacher d'avance j'…

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Most interesting comments from YouTube:

@pasmas3217

5y↑6

@Michalis Spentzopoulos well to be honest you are talking about 5 or 50 guys in DEI, where as he is talking in a system change for all. The same thing said about the greedy guys in DEI's union can be said about those build the highways in the country. Proping costs to 10x the normal, those who were (and probably those who are) building the metro in Thessaloniki, all the shiplines that automatically get 0% taxes but make huge profits...
we can go on and find individual or group cases where sb is making greedy and crazy personal gains, but he is not talking on a personal level. AND yes what he is talking about is theoretical, but he is getting it close to practical. and also you need to start somewhere

*btw the constanlty money-hungry DEI has to problems that makes it power hungry
1- it is designed to provide power as a human right to possibly lowest prices (which isnt working), a system that through many different ways has been brocken for a long time and is only going down
2-comparing to many other countries that try to run a similar system Greece has too many islands and mountains. which makes it VERY costly to maintain and build up, and based on the point above and how brocken it is it becomes money hungry

But i can tell, i curretnly dont live in greece. where i live there are 3 private energy companies and no public one. hte private companies love to make money from everyday use of the already built system and since they operate it they have to maintain it. but that goes only for small problems. When a natural disaster happens for example and there is a huge project needed afterwards they disappear , It suddenly is the goverments job to rebuild everything and that means the taxpayer paying for it the same way we are in greece, small difference is that here they make profits in between, and those profits do not go back in when there is a problem. in greece all money made go back in this system.
*and yes i do not agree with adding all those other costs in the enrgy bill (municipal, tv, etc)

@Scarvex

8y↑6

I really like Varoufakis. I have watched quite some hours of interviews and speeches with him now, and whether I agree with him or not, it becomes evident instantly that he has deep insight about the matters of his domain and regards any matter and oponent with great respect, critiquing percisely but always with deep understanding for the causes of others actions.

It is so pleasing to listen to him, as he speak so clearly and simple in his analysis, outlines causes and follows up with challenging proposals. I don't necessarily agree upon his views on capitalism, but for the reasons above and the fact that he challenges the establishment with his full integrity I highly value him for his words.

His speeches have great depth and offer different perspectives. I cannot recommend them enough. Also i believe him to be somebody who admits his mistakes, which in my opinion gives him the greatest credibility for being someone who values the truth and a better solution to our way of living above his own point of view.

Also even though he only served as politician for six months, he had some great ideas that sadly didn't get the deserved support and shared his valuable insights into the inner workings of the eurogroup, which is one of the most powerful institutions on the continent, yet nobody gets educated about.

Cheers to this brave man!

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@flankspeed

3y↑1K

This guy is more intelligent and comprehensible in his 2nd language than any current major UK political figure in their first.

@colinogorman8279

3y↑1

🤔

@marios6147

3y↑5

No he's not. His party is left leaning and he himself is an economist. How does one who studied economics go left? Consider that

@flankspeed

3y↑76

@@marios6147 The guy who INVENTED ECONOMICS was "left-leaning" by your standards.

@marios6147

@@flankspeed How is that possible? Could you elaborate?

@flankspeed

3y↑74

@@marios6147 Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations" is considered to be the world's first economics text. Within it, he advocates progressive taxation and social reform to create more equality, which he said would lead to more productivity. He ends by saying that the true wealth of a nation is to be found in its people.

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@masteradjuster9408

5y↑1.1K

People who say they don't make mistakes are dangerous people.... so true.

@mattmarkus4868

5y↑11

And people who say they aren't greedy are extremely dangerous. That sort of denial is like a looming and pernicious shadow (yes, reference to Jung as well if you like)

@jamescook6477

BREXIT!!!!

@owenbunny4023

4y↑7

they either dont do anything or they cover all their mistake up

@masteradjuster9408

4y↑1

@@DdraigGoch84 true

@coreycox2345

4y↑2

It is a great test of a government as well, Master Adjuster.

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@noneofyourbusiness3288

2y↑87

I love Yanis. When the Euro-crisis was happening we were heavily propagandized against Greece and for capital. Now years later, every time I hear him speak I realize more and more why they were so afraid of him.

@joblakelisbon

50w

Have you actually been to Greece recently?
It's all great theorising about socialist policy. However when you actually go to a country that relentlessly insists on electing socialists you see what the end result is - squalor. I'm in Athens right now - the place is an absolute dump with aging infrastructure and a dead economy. The only thing that is booming is tourism - literally nothing else.

@Pspet

49w↑16

@@joblakelisbon What are you even talking about, Greece has never elected any political party remotely close to socialistic policies. Syriza (2015-2018) was claiming to be that, but continued on the footsteps of all the previous governments.

@bdz_4206

49w

@@joblakelisbon And that doesn't give you a clue? I live in Greece, the Conservatives are in Government , everything has been privitised, so you know, the free market being optimal. The islands are nice though, because Greece values tourists more that their constituency. But yeah, if only the sensible conservatives get in charge, hire loads of police and beat the crap out of protestors to make business happen, oh that's what's happening? and you don't like it? Yea, that's what he's talking about.

@PaulSmith-gi5bf

28w↑1

@@joblakelisbon when exactly has anyone socialist been elected in Greece? And don't say "Syriza" because it's clearly a party mostly of opportunists claiming to be socialists. The capitalists have killed Greece, both foreign and local, not socialists. It's also no wonder that fascism is on the rise in Greece too after so many years of liberal capitalism, they're one and the same, just in different economic conditions.

@NikolaosPetrichos

9w↑1

@@joblakelisbon The irony writes itself. It is you who doesn't know anything about Greece it seems.

@dream4848

4y↑635

In Turkish we have a saying: "Those who tell the truth, get kicked out of 9 neighbourhoods"

@MarianDouglasUngaro

4y↑9

ruya x, why “nine”? Teşekkür ederim 😊

@dream4848

4y↑12

@@MarianDouglasUngaro no idea 😂😂😂

@TheJonnyEnglish

4y↑19

@@MarianDouglasUngaro because the 10th accepts them with open arms

@5Gazto

4y↑11

Well, to be fair, nobody kicked me out, I escaped myself to save me. Hehehe.

@dream4848

4y↑2

@pratik mohite I certainly do not, but got the point :D

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@geologist5838

2y↑32

This is no doubt they only politician I’ve ever heard in Greece in the last decade who said “I made mistakes every day”

@yash1152

4y↑77

1:36 "democracy would be banned, if it threatened to change anything...."

@jeffapellido1959

8y↑3.4K

People keep basing their opinion on this guy because he was a minister of finance for Greece. However, him or his policies had nothing to do with the Greek economic collapse because it collapsed years before he became the finance minister. You can argue wether or not his policies helped to recover Greece, but connecting him or his ideas to the Greek crisis is shallow and lazy.

@maggitPL

8y↑68

+Jeff Apellido How could they if he was forced to do what Troika told him to?

@cleander-antriksha-anuhart

8y↑74

+maggit that why he quited and left + troika didnt want him there anyway :/

@seinfan9

8y↑39

+Jeff Apellido Greece collapsed because politicians bought votes with government freebies. Just like every other socialist country.

@Cjeska

8y↑13

+Jeff Apellido Just as it is shallow and lazy not to provide any reason why his policies were good and solely base your argument on the fact that he was "the new guy". He was voted in by the same idiots that have voted for bigger government in the years before him, namely the Greek citizens, there is nothing new about him.

@writerconsidered

8y↑5

+Jeff Apellido My opinion on this guy is he completely failed to explain himself.
That and the one fact he said was the EU was the largest economy. Which is either euro eccentricity or stupidity. In any event he needs to explain himself much better.

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@johnchessant3012

5y↑548

His book, "And the weak suffer what they must?", is brilliant. I highly recommend.

@Avratin

5y↑58

@Snappingturtle 267 LOL, you've reinforced your echo chamber with extra strength.

@AshDemonYoung

5y↑36

@Snappingturtle 267 You know this because of your extensive research into the subject, surely.

@AshDemonYoung

5y↑21

@Snappingturtle 267 Source?

@gafeht

5y↑40

@Snappingturtle 267 "Do your own research."

If you were confident in your beliefs and invested in upholding your assertion you would provide evidence. This is your opportunity.

@donsink

5y↑6

WHYYYY? Why can’t these propagandists (or ignorants) not comprehend that capitalism did not cause ANY of this!!! Corporations are simply tools of the bankers and secret societies that JFK spoke of publicly before he was Axed. They use govt to favor cronies while suffocating their competition through the highest tax rate in the world which doesn’t effect the cronies because they have they profits in banksters off shore tax havens, and regulations and hostile policies on business. While at the same time our govt run education system and crony corporate college scam will not teach anyone how to live in a real capitalist system, no entrepreneurship education, no learning how to grow food, or monetary education or any real history. There’s so much more but we are under immense propaganda esp from msm. Karl Marx was propped up by the bankers and the result was Govt murdering well over 100 million of its own people in the last 100 yrs. that’s why this guy even says he’s confused. Nobody explained that capitalism can’t exist with the manipulation of the markets, currency, interest rates, inflation, stock market, and society in general.

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@r.b.l.5841

5y↑229

Yanis - so honest - "did you make any mistakes...everyday"
He has very interesting ideas, we have struggled for a century to reconcile the conflict between capitalism and democracy - at least he shows a way forward. maybe not the only or the best way forward but it is brilliant.

@williamwells835

5y↑1

. . .We need a capitalist economy of , by, and for the people as well as a
government thereof. The concept of "checks and balances" should be
applied towards all earthly influences and entities, financial as well as
political.

@syta657

5y↑6

I like the fact that Yanis is trying to put forward a vision, he is solution-oriented! I am now part of the DIEM25 movement.

@alanwatts797

3y↑18

@@williamwells835 capitalism is literally undemocratic and can never be "by and for the people." It is for CAPITAL, the only purpose is to make profits by exploiting the surplus value created by the majority of society (workers) and their labor. The only solution isnt social democracy which is just capitalism with extra crumbs for the poor, but a socialized worker owned economy, that switches from profit oriented goals to fulfilling the needs of the society it is producing for.

@williamwells835

3y↑2

@@alanwatts797 Thankyou for that precise definition.

@williamwells835

@@alanwatts797 My main objection regarding "capitalism" is all the hucksterism that goes on. We need to stimy commercial 'free speech'.

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@mildredmartinez8843

2y↑29

I love to hear this man Yanis. He speaks truths many of us should hear. This run away capitalism should not be allowed. Too many, millions of people suffer from capitalists ill gotten wealth.

@Jane102248

2y↑3

The US government, by law, is supposed to REGULATE corporations when they issue the charters to do business. Instead, we have corporations regulating government/s.

@maogu1999

6y↑240

It's so poethic to hear a Greek guy talk about democracy two thousand years later after it's been invented

@jacoblehrer4198

3y↑4

Modern day Greece has nothing to do with ancient Greece

@lordofsatire6829

3y↑1

Ah this guy is greek. That explains a lot

@KleineJoop

3y↑6

@@jacoblehrer4198 Nothing? lol, idiot. Anyway, it's romantic speaking by Gopnic, you muppet. Varoufakis is fantastic

@krispi1481

2y↑11

@@jacoblehrer4198 it's the same country. Open a book sometime

@sharann3482

2y↑3

@@krispi1481 you should also check up what kind of Democracy existed in Ancient Greece and how long it survived.

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@klausbrinck2137

3y↑88

"Idiot" is an ancient greek word, still used today in Greece, but still with its original meaning. It got a negative touch when athenian democracy spread over Greece and its colonies. Its original meaning: "person who takes care only of his private affairs, also the economic ones, without participating in the community", a pretty common word still today in Greece (synonymous to "businessman"), describing almost all of us. And an example proving that most of us are too incompetent for democracy. I wish us luck...

@konstantinapapaioannou4306

2y↑14

I don't know if you are actually greek, but this is 100% true. Idiot means private businessman in modern greek. And I think this word and the way its meaning evolved, is a great example of nomen est omen... The person who only looks after his own interest is indeed shortsighted... For harming the community will eventually harm him.

@klausbrinck2137

2y↑6

@@konstantinapapaioannou4306 Sadly, it takes a great deal of intelligence and courage, to admit to oneself, that giving one to society, and getting 2 or 3 back, really works... It´s actually better than the Wall Street (Sofokleous str. ;-) Kai epishs: Geia sou patrida ;-)

@michaellariviere5065

1y↑2

Democracy is the people making the laws by referendum - the people being well informed before voting. Autocracy is keeping people in the dark - making certain people are misinformed and making laws to keep them in line.

@holypaladin334

How are we too incompetent for democracy when the current undemocratic capitalist system incentives and empowers people to behave selfish and ruthlessly in the economic sphere.

@michaellariviere5065

1y↑1

@@holypaladin334: I don't know why you believe "we" are too incompetent to practice democracy? Ask yourself, are you too incompetent? The indication that you are thinking and asking this very question tells me otherwise. There are some people that are incompetent to govern, in fact most people in government have no understanding on managing a country and the ones that do, manipulate the system to serve themselves. Our laws are what determines whether we practice democracy or autocracy. The latter is what Canada and the USA practice because our leaders practice dictatorship while posing as a democracy. Direct Democracy takes the power of law-making out of the hands of government and places that responsibility in the hands of the voting public via referendum. General consensus determines whether a proposed law will be accepted or rejected. This is democracy. Making our laws by mandate and by a handful of cronies in parliament who will do the bidding of the party's leader emulates dictatorship as practiced under a monarchy. And that is what we practice. This system is rife with corruption and serves the few while burdening the many. We need to get rid of this corrupt political system that is laden with nepotism and cronyism, making the wealthy richer and the working class poor to serve the rulers.

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@toureiro

8y↑2.8K

I used to see a lot of media demonizing this guy, but every time I actually hear him it not only makes sense but I find him to come across as trustworthy. Funny that.

@EddyMac1903

8y↑7

+Alex Wilson No, he isn't.

@indalecio21

8y↑46

+Future Ruler of Ukraine Yes he is.

@joristurk

8y↑149

+Ricardo Toureiro he suffered one of the nastiest character assasinations in recent history! Granted he is a bit of a "dreamer" like not all his positions or ideas are gonna be carried out but he is nevertheless a economic professor he knows that good markets work but that they sometimes need adjustments

@EddyMac1903

8y↑55

+Indal No, he really isn't.

Hitler achieved power almost exclusively through charisma or scare tactics. How many Germans do you think took the time to read Mein Kampf, or actually thought about what the consequences of their blind support?

Supporting a politician based off of how they "come across" is apart of the sole flaw of democracy; we let everyone vote, including the morons.

It's how Hitler got into power, and it's how shallow ideologues like Trump and Clinton are getting into power now.

@toureiro

8y↑60

+Xadem I fully agree. (although, the notion that someone would vote for someone like trump by how they come across is a bit baffling) What I meant is how I personally perceive him knowing of his background with Valve and hearing what he actually says, and how that contrasts with a lot of the information that goes around and leads people to attack people like him, even comparing him to Hitler in this typically insane YouTube comment thread...

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@aydnofastro-action1788

5y↑560

"We live in a world of artificial scarcity." - Buckminster Fuller

@deskryptic

5y↑16

Dude is speaking truth. I also appreciate the bit of Q& A. different for TED. Hayek, Marx and Keynes- (and some indigenous thinking, bio-regionalism and a lil' Buckminster Fuller to get to the Star trek thing would help too) Thanks @Aydn of Astro-Action.

@aydnofastro-action1788

5y↑5

Thank you!

@jamesmoylan2861

That was ending with anti speculating global , bretton woods united news video on YouTube

@deskryptic

5y↑2

@@jamesmoylan2861 ?

@MrHarveyrex23

5y↑1

And artificial consumer demand

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@dandannyt4432

5y↑253

I like this guy... Need to hear more from him.
He is good for the conversation

@Will_Moffett

5y↑10

I liked this guy when he first came on the scene. Then I was like get off your high horse dude, nobody has all the answers. Now I am wondering if he might in fact have all the answers.

@DanDeLeoninthefield

5y↑13

@@Will_Moffett Many people are put off by his manner, but his message is sound.

@TasosPardalis

5y↑21

@@Will_Moffett he doesn't give you all the answers, he simply tries to help us see what's going on currently and historically and hopefully this will help us make decisions and take actions to a better future

@qp12qp

He is a clown, try searching him, deeper than the propaganda.

@amadeomanuelcamposlopes9890

4y↑1

You said something so true. Good for the conversation. Can we stop capitalists? No.

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@matthewmurdoch6932

4y↑21

I know this shouldn't be the main take-away here, but I am just sooooo happy a Greek guy just referenced a Greek myth to make a point in the 21st Century. So satisfying.

@johnchessant3012

6y↑32

I love Varoufakis's book, And the Weak Suffer What They Must? . It's very well-written!

@23yannis

5y↑2

@panama2468

5y↑43

This is an amazing talk. Relevant and insightful.

@CrniWuk

6y↑2.1K

Sadly to many people confuse capitalism with democracy.

@florenna

5y↑37

@CrniWuk Exactly, and it's sadly all too common especially among those who are against mass immigration and Islamisation of Europe (they think all that is the fault of the left and "commies"), otherwise a very worthy cause that everyone regarding themselves as European should support.

@johnmorgan5495

5y↑5

Too many , to many is totally diferent

@williamwells835

5y↑96

A free market gets confused with freedom itself.

@timdunk7278

5y↑4

Sadly, they know precious little about neither.

@luciferlaughs9859

5y↑5

@@williamwells835 Exactly! Equality ( Democracy ) is totally companionable with Republican Government.

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@lozoft9

5y↑9

I have a feeling Varoufakis will become a big name in both economics and politics. He'd make an amazing PM, possibly one of the first career academics in such a high position in gov't as well.

@1234piano

3y↑20

I discovered him recently. I'm listening to him more and more.

@jimpachi98

4y↑259

"when change happens, it happens very abruptly and catastrophically"

Covid-19: 👀

@herbsewell4995

3y↑8

I feel like we wait until people are dying to make necessary changes. After 9/11 we went to war with 8 countries. We are having a 9/11 everyday now and nothing is really being done about it.

@EdwardSkihands

3y↑2

If I was American, US citizen, I'd be packing my s*** by now and looking for a nice place that accepts immigrants or refugees from map.

...Because it's a country on a brink of collapse, seriously...

Even liberals are reacting without knowing what to do but just losing their s***s over some fake identy issue or something similar non-issue without much real world importance, but allows judgement. Conservatives... Well we all know without going too much details wtf is going with them, but like seriously wtf is going on with the conservatives in US? President doesn't even speak of humans or citizens of USA anymore when he's referring over half of population of the country he's president of...

Yikes, gtfo from there guys. Unless you're rightwing conservative, don't leave anywhere in that case. Alright chief? When things begin happening, it can escalate fast and who is ready to bet Trump haven't managed to divide and conquer the armed forces? There will be violence, mass graves and camps, Biden won't help you because he can't, sorry. This Pandoras Box is open, emotional investments for fascism has been made. Get the f*** out from there, or if that's not available option (doubt you get this much from other Europeans but:) arm yourselves. You have the right, please use it...

@GostlyDamage

12w

Exactly because every time something like that happens, we don't really investigate it. However, when he mentioned it, it's all I can think about.

@ThinkHuman

3y↑15

Amazing talk with so many great insights! I am glad that more and more people are starting to understand this and think this way. The new generation of people, we who grew up with the internet and have access to knowledge, we who have seen so much corporation and governmental corruption being uncovered, we who have seen such obviously absurd wealth inequality only rise. And we are so so sick of it. We will change this world together. In the next 5, 10, 15 years, the world will be very different. The future will be what we want, not what the 0.01% want.

@Jane102248

This change requires UNITY of the working classes globally.

@ziziroberts8041

2y↑12

If you're not confused, you're not thinking. Fully agree. 🌹

@august6981

Well generally ig, but the level of thought required to come to his conclusion of what an ideal world and methods of getting there would be doesn’t require too much thought beyond basic moralism and uncertainty/fear of radical change.

@CapucineAbadie

8y↑310

Whether or not you agree with him, as a Brit this guy puts our politicians to shame. Actually knows what he thinks and why. That's pretty rare these days.

@benksteele8127

@777jones

2y↑2

He talks in riddles. A long string of non sequiturs.

@Callummullans

Idk though he makes me feel too hopeful in place of guilt and fear. 🇬🇧

@patbranigan6501

5y↑75

The problem with Varoufakis is that he is not an either/or Westerner he is an AND Eastern thinker. We have lost in the West the ability to take the best from all sorts of thinking it is either or this thought or that thought giving no answers or solutions to the problems of our society. Varoufakis takes the best from many and puts it together into new thinking and solutions.

@pasmas3217

5y↑6

@23TSF

4y↑1

The bigest Problem I always see here is, that nobody asked the hard question. Should everyone have the right to vote? The answer from everyone would be yes.
Ask it a bit different. Should everyone have the right to vote on things they know nothing about?
The answer should be no.
And at my opinion the combination ot these two things should always be considered for democracy as well. You should only let people vote who have showed (maybe through previous Test) that they know what they are voting for, including consequenses!
There is no reason to do things that are clearly bad for humanty but do them anyway because people want it. I am talking about things where an opinion doesnt matter because there is scientific proof or even natural laws.
And people proof it again and again that they are to stupid to let them vote. Why should you let somebody vote for important things if he still believes the earth is flat? Why should you?
You wouldnt let your child decide where to invest your money if it had the choice between Candy, Toys, education, Entertainment or healthy food. There is more than one good choice, but most of them will take the choice for a non future friendly thing they can enjoy now. Thats how most of humanty works... Sadly

@alexpotts6520

4y↑1

He is also in the unfortunate position that, unlike most thinkers of his kind, he has actually enacted his own ideas in the real world.

How did that go?

@yananneteoh9818

Mao was a post modernist thinker, rooted in revolution for the ideal utopian country, rooted in the arts, culture, poetry... The CCP was a resistance group against the facists in China, Malaysia, SE Asia and Europe... They were forced to go underground, manywere caught, tortured and killed... Didn't the British shoot more than 400 students protesting against the unfair Paris Treaty in which the Europeans conceded to Japan chunks of China? Mao 's Communist group fought and won the wars against foreign aggressions and genocides without arms or weapons. Medicine or money. MAO was A genius who savedand united a highly independent thinking Chinese. He was a great strategist but he was so vilified that we really don't know the true Mao anymore.

@lordofsatire6829

@Anne T
Huh I remember Mao for being the fuckpig who killed tens of millions. Suppose I'm just a fascist

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@TheA8lee

5y↑2

Yanis Varoufakis's idea of communal businesses is a nice one and I like hearing a positive outlook on the future, for a change. For me the problem is how such a system can harness the ego? How do the great, the successful, intelligent, energetic, etc display the status that reflects their merits in such a system? How would each employee's capital due and company role valuation be legally regulated?

@edwardl9325

3y↑12

Listen to this man. I really believe in what he said for myself being so confused for decades about the waste of human and natural resources by capitalism systems. Ultimate forms of human society definitely doesn't look like this

@g.anthonis49

6y↑5

Reading his book (And the weak suffer what they must?)in which he elaborates on these themes. Very insightful and thought provoking talk and book.

@DavidRaderII

5y↑13

As long as *corporations are people*, real people will be at an insane disadvantage.

@vonneely1977

7y↑946

I once ran a business where employee wages were nothing more than an equal share of the company profits. I have never seen more self-motivated workers before or since then.

@macy725

7y↑25

No you didn't lol. Quit lying.

@vonneely1977

7y↑174

Makarov Kid: Your unsubstantiated desires bear not effect on the reality of the world.

@AndrewManook

5y↑5

@Adrian Finn Small business mate.

@James-kq4vj

5y↑28

"once"

Didn't turn out so well in the long term, did it? 😂

@AndrewManook

5y↑112

@@James-kq4vj Another fan of slave labour.

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@MetalicSlayer666

5y↑51

Hope this seemingly intellectual person can bring about change in Greece
Voted for him.

@subscribeorsus6862

Amen brother.

@AB_learn

5y↑13

This is something what I have been thinking on for sometime. Especially the part on workers ownership of corporation leading to boost in the demand. If capitalism (consumption) culture has to survive then there has to be demand. And for demand to be there the people need to have money. The money will only to mass (wealth distribution) through the mentioned model or universal basic income model. Else we will keep on seeing the down sales of Apple Inc and other corporation.

@Josh-uy7qy

4y↑2

Falling demand is quite concerning, there's a video by a hedge fund billionaire, of all people haha, about the dangers this sort of soaring inequality brings to the system overall; I forget his name, but it's called The Pitchforks are Coming.

@ShadyRonin

4y↑1

This is also the argument for Universal Basic Income btw. I highly recommend The War on Normal People by Andrew Yang is you want to better understand both the impact of automation on jobs and how UBI would solve the demand issues you described

@freshwaterdiver1

18w↑2

I'm watching this 7 years later and it has all coming true.
He's on the ball. Unlike Politicians.

@Cecikim100

3y↑24

We need more leaders like Yanis in this World!!

@johnconway9882

51w

Marxists?

@soconfused8031

4y↑7

We already live (and have for centuries) in a bourgeois democracy. That is, a system in which policy is decided and politicians are bought by the capitalist class for the benefit of the capitalist class. This will always be the case for as long as the owners of a country think they can repress the population without stirring them to violence, and the only way to avoid this is to separate wealth and power, which is probably not possible for as long as private wealth exists.

@jv-lk7bc

5y↑1.4K

"if you're not confused, you are not thinking"

@hazelhearty4940

5y↑11

Sometimes confused after thinking....ready to do more thinking. Always think for the All Good.

@user-os7qq9xk4o

Na you all are just confused but keep trying though...

you might get there. prob not though...

honestly, you all might as stop while you are ahead

@mrbust999

5y↑1

If you're confused, you're not smart enough, bcuz only dumb people get confused.

@matiyanv5835

5y↑28

@@mrbust999 check your ego...

@tripleG1199

5y↑6

Just because you're confused, doesn't mean you're thinking...

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@veranochick

5y↑3

Hope this is also available on TED en español. Latinamericans need to see it.
Brilliant.

@WestOfEarth

1y↑2

Orators like Yanis give me hope. If only the people in power would listen to him.

@MauriceGucci

3y↑7

Yanis is the only politician on this planet who gives me hope and faith in democracy.

@williamkirkland2222

look up hte justice democrats in the US.

@chuckkottke

4y↑2

Very enlightening and thought provoking!

@Jero2KL

12w↑1

Yanis is remarkably candid when he asks, "Have you committed any errors... on a daily basis?" His ideas are quite intriguing; for a hundred years, we've grappled with the challenge of harmonizing the tensions between capitalism and democracy. While his proposed path may not be the sole or optimal solution, it undeniably stands out as a brilliant alternative.

@jakx2ob

8y↑121

When you dismiss Varoufakis views because he was Greek finance minister (that seems to be a common line of thought around here) please keep in mind that he retreated from that position because he found himself powerless to change anything about Greece economics in face of ESM.

That's what he is talking about when he says that Capitalism (which might not be exactly the correct term, but a more widely known one) is eating democracy.

edit: Just want to say that I'm open for debate as long as it stays rational.

@helenacorreia7613

2y↑14

I increasingly think that online debates have no fruits whatsoever. People engage in online debate with strangers only to take part in an intellectual antagonistic fight.
I find it really interesting that by showing yourself available for debate, no one came to debate! Where are the critics? Where are the arguments they bring for the rational debate? Seem to be a lot of them around here in other comments...

@paulg1256

2y↑3

I had nothing to debate you on.. but I love the spirit. So I just upvoted you. Cheers

@juiciegiraffe2562

4y↑1

LOVING the message, yanis, keep goin.

@PheneticsCo

4y↑11

this guy is a friggin' genius

@dofostaine4514

1y↑1

This is brilliant. I have not spent time digging his resume and reputation but the ideas of his talk is very promising and inspiring - regardless, it doesn't change the meaning (truth told by a liar remains truth). The main obstacle really is the people who have a lot to lose if the status quo changes. They will fight tooth-and-nail for what they think rightfully belongs to them. And these people no doubt are very powerful and have armies of sycophants and bootlickers ready to put their bodies on the line to protect their masters. The keystone lies on these sycophants and bootlickers, the minions who actually give power to these elite people clinging on to their excesses. Case point is Putin's Russia, a country ran by an 'emperor-enforcer' on behalf of a very exclusive elite circle, with the rest of the Russians approving the status quo either subdued by terror or state propaganda/disinformation, or both. It will need to reach a breaking point before these sycophants and bootlickers gain true awareness and then an unstoppable tide of change occurs.

On the other hand, while leaders and representatives are needed for any system to work, the power given to these people will need to be kept at the minimum even if this will mean a compromise on the "efficiency" of the decision-making process. The world needs to slowdown anyway, it's moving too fast to whatever state it tries to attain. At the cost of potentially irreversible destruction of the only habitable planet known. The pyramid scheme of perpetual economic growth needs to be reinvented before it leads us to its inevitable and violent end.

@harleymartin689

4y↑1

Very Interesting!!! Very futuristic and balanced and nourishing for everyone who looks inward and calls "SELF" individual separate from everyone ; yet social and together. Yes, I indeed like to explore this further !! 👏👏😷😷🍷🍷🍷😷😷😷

@IvaMosley

12w

Yanis is great when it comes to speaking on capitalism and his views highlight the tensions between capitalism and democratic values, emphasizing the importance of addressing economic challenges to create a fairer and more sustainable society.

@clementcarr5741

7y↑163

"Actually it was Einstein" Priceless...

@stuartbirch7815

4y↑7

This chap is the only politician I trust.

@DigitalAlligator

4y↑55

This paradox is called “fundmental contradiction of the capitalism” by Karl Marx

@tgr5772

3y↑1

Marx was a very evil person.

@starman275

3y↑9

@@tgr5772 How?

@tgr5772

@@starman275 He advocated violent revolution.

@L3th4LQu4rK

@@starman275 And his ideas were more deadly than all religious wars combined...

@gokvedeniz7786

3y↑23

@@tgr5772 Soviet Union did spread Communism under violent wars to some countries, but so did USA. Usa waged more wars than Soviet Union. To spread their 'freedom'. Freedom which is only for the richest.

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@Wow-xt1td

14w

Honestly i belive what he said was great he goes into all prespective and pros and cons, and also the anology does make it better to understand. I can calmly say that his POV is very understanding and well enought to understand for me.

@UserJWR

4y↑1

From Community Market Manager at Valve to Greek Finance Minister. This man has done it all!

@jonathaneffemey944

Thanks for posting.

@justgivemethetruth

5y↑786

Capitalism has already eaten democracy ... we are just seeing and hearing the post-prandial burps and farts from the meal.

@vibefrequencyable

5y↑4

😂😂😂

@mireillelebeau2513

5y↑5

In so many ways, I agree

@vibefrequencyable

5y↑18

Brilliant imagery.

@klystrom

5y↑10

And we are having their faeces rubbed in our faces - to extend the metaphor a bit..

@funmaster4632

I think I agree. Things could change maybe if the capitalist mess up which seems kind of probable. The next time we need a bailout it might not happen and then what? Capitalism will take a hit.

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@crazyhorsetrading8655

2y↑1

Yanis Varoufakis you are brilliant, thank you for giving me a deeper insight into the dark workings. I would sure vote for you.

@OMGAnotherday

5y↑47

Now 2019- nothing has improved! Not Yanis’s fault, it’s just that the Oligarchs don’t care!

@midnattsol6207

4y↑1

It is not upon the capitalists or oligarchs to care. While economic power can be turned into votes, there is no automatism and absolutism in this. It is upon us to break open the world views supported by the profiteers of capitalism and use elections against these odds to bring those to power who desire to dissolve economic power itself.

@OMGAnotherday

4y↑2

Midnattsol - Agree.
You are completely correct, the psychopathic Oligarchs have no reason whatsoever to be obliged to think twice about their actions, they have no ethical duty as far as they are concerned, but therein lies the difference, some of us have ethics, psychopaths have none!
How humanity deals with that serious problem is the difference between the human race surviving or not.
Once the psychopaths have destroyed 6.6 billion people, the only people they can come for is themselves, and they will do it because they are psychopaths.
Bye bye human race!

@lordofsatire6829

@L N paranoid much?

@kaily1971

12w

This is an amazing talk.

@TheArtemis07

6y↑6

He is brilliant!

@lulabros

5y↑3

Εξαιρετικός. Συγχαρητήρια!

@Scarvex

8y↑6

@diabl2master

4y↑7

His proposal seems all the more important right now.

@timothyfreeseha4056

A very interesting presentation of ideas. Awesome.

@pratikgore6536

Yanis Varoufakis is the reason why i hate my university lectures. Standards are set too high. Damn you Yanis

@JT-xg1nq

His mention of Singapore was apt. Focus had been and continue to be on economics. Now economics plus social assistance. Politics is the glue that joins economic, social and ecological dynamics. The glue is not flexible and cracks easily. Singapore is a case in point: For developing countries to follow and for developed countries Not to follow. Proven to work efficiently and then unsustainable with social ills.

@f.jgouda810

4y↑1

Well mr. Varuofakis .I'm Dutch. (Ehh from the Netherlands ) you 're completely right !

@tendies

8y↑138

BERNIE SANDERS 2016 !!!

@requiemforamerica8432

8y↑2

+Jean-Luc Dushimiye Because he is for huge government that controls means of production and will go deeper into 69 with big corporations - CORPORATIONISM FOR THE WIN!!!!!!!!!! LET'S ALL GET DIRT POOR LIKE VENEZUELA WITH BERNIE!!!!

@tendies

8y↑7

This is not communism, its democratic socialism. Look at Switzerland etc.

@xxNATHANUKxx

8y↑3

+NoName NoFame you are an idiot if you think he is anything like a communist

@mattiasx4623

Lol

@josephang9927

8y↑1

Bernie is an idiot old guy that believes everything can be free.

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@timothysuppera141

Very well explained and easy to understand.

@michaelk622

Love this gift. I wish I had even a little optimism about the future.

@PoppingMagnus

Here 8 years later. Her did not miss. The power of the financial sphere has massively taken more and more political power.

@ParishHawkins-Cochran-jx4bj

12w

Varoufakis makes a strona point about how our politics and economy should work together. He warns about the problems when we keep tem separate The idea of twin peaks and the call for a lively democracy are interesting. It makes you think about how our choices in politics affect our money and daily lives. Overall, it's a fresh take that challenges how we usually see things.

@vasudevshekhar9078

2y↑1

The best talk ever!

@qiwejofmsd

8y↑776

eats popcorn while scrolling down

@DragonLineVlog

8y↑2

same

@LoneWolf-wp9dn

8y↑1

+ciao wutang i know right... came here just to see people tear him a new one

@jandroid33

8y↑3

+ciao wutang No, stop eating popcorn, this is really important. Are you a Matrix guy or a Star Trek guy? :-)

@apocalypseap

8y↑16

+Lone Wolf More like, came here to see lots of retarded people try to connect him to the Greek economic crisis, regardless of the fact that happened years before he became minister of finance. Those pesky facts.

@danpope3812

8y↑8

+apocalypseap Don't let facts get in the way of a pointing finger.

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@muthukumaranl

Now that is what i have been thinking all along although i couldn't put my finger on how exactly one can propose a solution framework that is flexible enough to allow a certain bit of what i would like to call healthy inequality & room for improvement while at the same time keeping it under a measure of control to make room for a fluid system that is not too rigid to fail with time & change..in that context i am glad i heard this...the piece that is missing here which has been the greatest problem for me is the human element...building any system that is flexible enough to model human behavior/evolution is the challenge...looking at capitalism and democracy separately without including human behavior who are at the center of it is a bit like looking at the world only from a relativistic perspective and forgetting the quantum...

@shinlanten

5y↑14

Guess the guys not giving a standing ovation but a luke warm clap were the pure laissez faire backers ;-)

@mikolowiskamikolowiska4993

Democratic freemarket in action.

@ChristopherGlogger

1y↑1

WOW this is more relevant now than it was when this talk was held.

@wadegoodwin6773

An important seminal thinker that challenges the institutionalized narrative. Wade Goodwin, The FAIR Digest, Cape Town, South Africa

@briandavis7999

5y↑485

In the USA capitalism has already done ate it.

@danieldoucet8687

5y↑30

The USA is why you are able to type that ignorant statement.

@isismccain915

5y↑3

@@danieldoucet8687 You got that right my friend!

@luciferlaughs9859

5y↑36

@@danieldoucet8687 The USA is still worth saving! He is right about Corporate control of our government though. Business MUST be Regulated, and the people must be the ones to do it. Corporations have no body to jail or soul to damn, Corporations are NOT PEOPLE ! ( that law and precedent MUST change )

@Knaeben

5y↑11

There really is only capitalism and the varieties of its corruption, of which socialism and corporatism are two extremes. Corporatism is what he is referring to, not capitalism. Socialism would be insanity, so the world needs to work within capitalism to find the solution.

@isismccain915

5y↑5

@@Knaeben Yes, the crony capitalism that currently exists in the U.S. has got to be reigned in, and socialism is NOT the answer folks!!

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@travisbrewer5391

I like his analogy of twin peaks of idle cash and debt especially when you expand it to say the former mountain is matter, and the latter is antimatter. When the two encounter each other they annihilate destroying their combined mass and releasing energy according to E=mc^2

@user-qh6js9td3q

12w↑1

We all fall into the common trap of talking about labels, such as democracy, and not about the content. But he has some valid points. There are dangers posed by our current economic system towards democracy.

@phillbradshaw7190

50w

Heads up - I've seen, liked & shared this vid b4 both were removed

@calliopibertos4020

6y↑2

He is knowledgeable, articulate, and poetic and ABOVE ALL he speaks the TRUTH.

@marlonsegura5201

26w

Agreed. One question. He is 'poetic' in what way?

@Elucidator-

4y↑2

'Every day'
Very humble.

@sibusisomasondo8530

8y↑29

This man is brave he said all these valid points in a capitalist country

@brufnus

6y↑1

I couldn't agree more with you! This video was exactly what I was looking for.

@StubbyMangoCoC

5y↑2

Wow, fantastic speech. Thank you

@2late4coffee

4y↑1

Great talk, Yanis you are a honest and genius man.

@reaperluke3518

4y↑9

It has already had.
Here in Italy, taxes are progressive, meaning that the more you're rich, the more you pay. Yet there is a maximum roof to taxation, which means that if you make above 75.000 euros per year you will pay the same % of someone who makes 1 billion per year. So, the concentration of wealth in the hands of the few still happens.
And big companies everywhere can still bring their registered office in a tax heaven, and states have forgone their authority and bow to the requests of big companies, begging them to bring jobs on their territory.
So the State has already become a servant of the capital. Laws are made not to regulate capitalism: capitalism decides the laws.
No one says that Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos should not be rich for their entrepreneurial skill.
They shouldn't BE SO GODDAMN RICH THAT THEY COULD BUY A CONTINENT SINGLE-HANDEDLY.

@rachmondhoward2125

Yanis understanding of politics and its relationship to economics is phenomenal; if only politicians can understand and appreciate his insights. The greatest threat to democracy is the greed of the oligarchs (political-big business-military terrorists complex) and their Faustian Machiavellian evils.

@DahBjorn

8y↑131

The guy makes a lot of sense, when he talks about the problems of capitalism at least. I couldn't quite follow on his solution (guess I'll have to watch again), but it was an interesting talk none the less, especially when you consider the past experience of the man. Good speaker as well, thumbs up on this one.

@roidroid

8y↑4

Yeah i wish it was more coherent. Lots of very interesting subjects touched on, but it was kinda going all over the place, seemed almost like it was spoken completely off the cuff.

@SamRobertduty

8y↑16

+DahBjorn His solution was democratization of enterprises, not letting the traditional owners of owning all capital for themselves and the other solution was a fund to promote technologies (like medical and green energy for poor countries) by means of a cryptocurrency where each country would fund a sum that's proportional to their trade deficit (so if they import more but export less, they would fund more than the traditional agreed sum).

@ZombieX13

8y↑7

+DahBjorn He wants to use democracy to steal money from those who have it and give it to politicians to do with it what they will. He's simply doubling down on the current system of collapse.

Also, he didn't identify the problem with capitalism. There isn't any capitalism so long as there is government that can claim to own all the money and land.

He's purposefully incoherent or an ignoramus - probably the latter. He threw around a lot of buzzwords, misrepresentations, and bigotry. He's a politician..

@mikael7071

8y↑24

+ZombieX13 is this really all you got from this talk? You probably didn't even know half the people he named in it..

@slukky

7y↑11

"He wants to use democracy to steal money from those who have it and give it to politicians to do with it what they will."

Um, this is being done now. Has been for a long time under our capitalist system. I think you meant to say, "He wants to stop capitalists from stealing money...."

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@deskryptic

@RockinCowgirl1000

5y↑2

I think some form of this will have to happen eventually, but we are decades or more away and I don't know if we have that long. Things will get much worse, hit rock bottom, before this happens. The future seems pretty scary.

@wynterenae

12w↑1

the video opens my mind up to the idea of speaking up not only for capitalism, but everything else that i stand for. It also makes me realize that mistakes are okay and that just because I or someone makes them doesn’t mean we can’t accomplish something.

@kaloyanvelikov1821

6y↑5

This guy should run the world!

@ianedmonds9191

4y↑1

Anytime he talks I find myself I agreeing.
He's right. End of.
Luv and Peace.

@RyanGenX2

8y↑155

How can people label Mr. Varoufakis as politician? He has an academic degree in economics. He has achievements at Valve which only hires the best people (and we know all how successful valve is).

He is an outsider of politics thats why he volunteered to try and fix the finantial situation of greece out of patriotism.
After 6 months he retired from his minister position due to frustration because of the stubborn system.

@X-Flight

8y↑11

+RyanGenX2 Obviously people don't know him at all but still talk about him and "how he ruined Greece", zzz

@dude22043

i am A gummy

@prometheus9096

7y↑1

The people are sheep. Four legs good two legs bad meehhh

@FlaggingAwesome

No one knows what Valve is.

@Kolokommouna

6y↑5

The system was stubborn because Tsipras became corrupted, as it is his nature. Varoufakis was wasted. He could have done a lot of good.

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@milztempelrowski9281

5y↑18

I just 'love' the fact that in german news he was/is always referred to as absolutely insane.

7:1 never forget

@jmka4l

5y↑20

He eluded to worker cooperatives. The key to a democratic socialist society. Rather than allow power to rest in the hands of the state, we leave it in the hands of the everyday worker.

@LimeyLassen

5y↑4

Corporations being accountable to the community is the key to everything. If the economy was democratic we wouldn't be harming the environment. We live in the environment, that's crazy!

@jmka4l

5y↑8

@Snappingturtle 267 Then why doesn't a business owner do everything themselves? Because they literally can't, they NEED workers as much as the workers in your case need them. As much as you want to paint a start-up as a one person show it simply is not. There is also room in worker coops for CEO-type figures, directors, managers, etc who are paid more (but not 20-200x more). Worker coops can be started by the workers as well, there is nothing that says they have to take it over from a capitalist, so the pretense to your comment is false. To write my entire comment off as pure insanity is also just intellectually dishonest.

@henriconfucius5559

The everyday worker can do nothing but tighten the screw.

@Josh-uy7qy

Not to be too facile, I hope, but who stops you from organising a worker's cooperative in our current society? Nobody so far as I can see. It's just that those with innovations tend to want to make money and to have a lot more than the rest of those involved in the process, so they go for the usual corporate route. You do have some shining examples of workers' cooperatives, I know there's a brewery in Canada which works this way and I think Michael Moore covered a workers cooperative somewhere in the U.S.

@d4nkx549

That's communism lmao

@LD-wf2yt

3y↑1

2.8K thumbs down?! The way I heard the talk: there was a good point, followed by something new, then a bit of build up, then another good point, distraction, clarification, buildup, another good point, another reach for something (you know what I am talking about: Matrix, China, Soviet, Magna Carta, Oedipus, Star Trek, Athens, Marxist, etc), etc. It is pity TED talks do not use more visuals to make some talks clearer.