Yanis Varoufakis on the death of capitalism, Starmer, and the tyranny of big tech
Channel 4 News・28 minutes read
China and the United States dominate big Tech while Europe and Britain are considered insignificant; Techno-feudalism, a mutated form of capitalism, shifts wealth to cloud capital controlled by companies like Amazon and Alibaba, impacting economic stability, individual autonomy, and global dynamics. A proposal for socializing cloud capital involves giving each employee one share in a company upon employment, aiming to create equality between workers and owners, challenging traditional economic laws and systems.
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- Techno-feudalism, as described by Yanis Varoufakis, is a mutated form of capitalism where wealth is generated through cloud capital by big Tech companies like Amazon and Alibaba, leading to economic crises and a blurring of work-leisure boundaries.
- The proposal to socialize cloud capital by giving each employee a non-tradable share in a company upon employment aims to create equality and democratize corporations, shifting away from profit-driven markets to a more equitable shareholder democracy.
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What is techno-feudalism?
A mutated form of capitalism based on cloud capital.
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