{"id":1584685,"date":"2024-04-01T21:36:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T21:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=002afd83d9580eb51bc90337ba5d86d1"},"modified":"2024-04-01T21:36:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T21:36:00","slug":"3307-technofeudalism-what-killed-capitalism-w-yanis-varoufakis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/04\/01\/3307-technofeudalism-what-killed-capitalism-w-yanis-varoufakis\/","title":{"rendered":"3307 – “Technofeudalism”: What Killed Capitalism w\/ Yanis Varoufakis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy Monday! Sam and Emma speak with Yanis Varoufakis<\/a>, economics professor and former Finance Minister of Greece, to discuss his recent book Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism.<\/a>\u00a0First, Sam and Emma run through updates on continuing US arms sales to Israel, infrastructure regulation, Florida\u2019s Medicaid dump, New Jersey\u2019s ballot design, and new reports on racial biases in medicine, also watching Christiane Amanpour talk with Zahiro-Shahar Mor about Israel\u2019s failing genocide. Professor Yanis Varoufakis then joins, first walking through the evolution from Feudalism\u2019s formula of land ownership and rent extraction to Capitalism\u2019s formula of the ownership of the means of production and profit extraction, before diving into his concept of \u201cTechnofeudalism,\u201d a rising system of digital fiefdoms \u2013 Amazon a primary example \u2013 where products not produced by the owner of the platforms are sold with a massive rent extraction. Expanding on this, Professor Varoufakis explores the role of these platforms\u2019 ownership of the means of behavioral modification (via the extraction of data, once again, not produced by them) as an example of what he calls \u201ccloud capital,\u201d which takes up massive proportions of the global GDP and siphons it off from the labor market, before stepping back to analyze the role of the 2008 financial crisis and the commitment to the neoliberal dynamic of austerity for the people, socialism for the banks, in allowing the private world to funnel massive amounts of investment into cloud capital and allow existing companies (Meta, Google, Amazon, etc) to establish these digital fiefdoms. Wrapping up, Professor Yanis Varoufakis tackles the role that various fiscal and anti-trust policies, the idea of a bill of digital rights, and workplace democratization could play in helping to reclaim and reshape these technofeudalist fiefdoms.<\/p>

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