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  • DiEM25 co-founder Yanis Varoufakis on capitalism in crisis, and what should come next.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 740

  • @samdegoeij6576
    @samdegoeij6576 4 роки тому +66

    Proud to call him a DIEM25 comrade in the Netherlands!✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼✊✊🏻🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

    • @u.d.7543
      @u.d.7543 4 роки тому +3

      Gegroet

    • @C_R_O_M________
      @C_R_O_M________ 4 роки тому +1

      So, the ignorant cancer is spreading beyond Greece's borders! I'll prepare a clip to counterARGUE (he doesn't even argue, he just makes empty statements like "the misanthropy of Capitalism") his content here. If I remember I'll link it here.

    • @u.d.7543
      @u.d.7543 4 роки тому

      @@C_R_O_M________ I hope you get that cancer.

    • @hinkab
      @hinkab 4 роки тому +2

      @@C_R_O_M________ Still waiting for the counter argument.

  • @funny-video-YouTube-channel
    @funny-video-YouTube-channel 4 роки тому +53

    Basically he explained 2007-2020 in 5 minutes.
    We needed political reforms, and better investment strategies of public funds.
    The strategic use of public funds must be voted on to avoid misuse and bad economic decisions !

    • @C_R_O_M________
      @C_R_O_M________ 4 роки тому +3

      epSos.de He didn’t explain a thing! Just arbitrary and unsubstantiated statements.

    • @PabloTBrave
      @PabloTBrave 4 роки тому +2

      The 2008 crisis effected finance and property sectors two of the most legislated and monitored industries around , can't blame that on capitalism .

    • @C_R_O_M________
      @C_R_O_M________ 4 роки тому +3

      @@PabloTBrave he'll blame everything on capitalism because he sells this product to attract voters and money. Just like every professional politician out there he's building a "customer base". The people in here, cheering for him, either have vested interests themselves or they have been fooled by the narrative.
      Varoufakis will never talk about the role of Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs) like Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae and their unbelievably irresponsible operation in airing the housing bubble up. These guys bought loans from first-line lender as soon as the former issued them. This distorted the market greatly by taking all the risk away from first-line lenders so that they needn't screen the people they were giving the loans to (because FM&FM will take them off their hands immediately!). Brilliant eh?

    • @phildemetriou440
      @phildemetriou440 3 роки тому

      Greece is not exactly leading the way for better investment.
      The most mismanaged country in the EU and the most corrupt.
      The biggest EU handout for just 11 million population.
      Varoufakis should get his own house in order first.
      He wanted the EU bailout money to Greece to be written off ! 😁

    • @dangelo1369
      @dangelo1369 16 днів тому

      @@C_R_O_M________ They became "irresponsible" when they were tasked to make a profit. I suppose you being an American, your views are provincial and thus can't see yourself and this country the way that others see it?

  • @CSGraves
    @CSGraves 4 роки тому +199

    'Hopelessness, poverty, and iPhones.'

    • @kuwapa
      @kuwapa 4 роки тому +3

      Definitely brilliant juxtaposition 😅

    • @thug4lyfe
      @thug4lyfe 4 роки тому +7

      Hopelessness is a true feature of Capitalist society

    • @soleikam6662
      @soleikam6662 4 роки тому +3

      And toooo many people. Check the slums you will find more babies than adults.

    • @JohnSmith-gz4fs
      @JohnSmith-gz4fs 4 роки тому +5

      @@soleikam6662 the issue is that we have wrong resource management. We can easily afford 15 billion people.

    • @ronaldonmg
      @ronaldonmg 4 роки тому +1

      @@JohnSmith-gz4fs if they are straight-edge vegan pedestrians, yes

  • @waltergarcia8273
    @waltergarcia8273 4 роки тому +30

    I recall someone recently mentioning how we not only need to imagine our utopia but we need many utopias. Imagination is the ticket into our future I believe. I would also to Thank you everyone for so many great comments. I learn immensely from you all.

  • @tommyhogan1306
    @tommyhogan1306 4 роки тому +32

    Keep it going guys. You have my vote

  • @mablebeel1619
    @mablebeel1619 4 роки тому +25

    I started donating to DDN today, an act of hope on my part!

    • @scrimon
      @scrimon 4 роки тому +4

      Right on. me too

    • @21M..AgeOfTruth
      @21M..AgeOfTruth 4 роки тому +1

      Me too. This man gives me hope x

    • @benbell9170
      @benbell9170 4 роки тому +1

      Astonishing how easy he fooled you to take your money!!! Exactly like the bankers he talks about

    • @C_R_O_M________
      @C_R_O_M________ 4 роки тому +1

      More of an act of desperation which is exactly what he cultivates in you. Note that he only focuses on the vague and distant problems and not the ones you face in your everyday life and which are the ones you can remedy with personal effort. A professional politician always want you to work for him! Remember that!

    • @mablebeel1619
      @mablebeel1619 4 роки тому

      @@benbell9170 hope you have a good day :)

  • @newworldforward1842
    @newworldforward1842 4 роки тому +21

    Worst part is the cronyism where governments and central banks are giving trillions to bankers and mega corporations. Small business get shut down and workers go unemployed, forced to a life in poverty. If they're going to print the money anyway, why not let it go to where it's needed instead of the billionaires??

    • @marketsocialist6421
      @marketsocialist6421 4 роки тому +2

      @@KB-uy3lv haha i can't because that's not communism, oligarchs can only exist within a system of undemocratic distribution of rewards. Trying to separate oligarchs and captialism is like trying to separate air from oxygen

    • @santoud
      @santoud 4 роки тому

      @@marketsocialist6421 You making a fool of your self, oligarchy is natural to humans as it is in chimps, coalitions form and take power and subjugate the minority till it is toppled down by an other power hungry coalition/oligarchy.
      Thinking that communism will be any diffrent, no actualy it will be worse as you will give absolute power to simple humans who will be absolutly corrupt by it.

    • @marketsocialist6421
      @marketsocialist6421 4 роки тому +1

      @@santoud leadership is natural to humans as it is to chimps, having a system that allows humans to choose their leadership to question it collectively at any given time to have them actively participate in the organization of their own lives prevents people from being able to come in and use enslavement like systems that create undemocratic power to take over as we have done in the past, you need systems both Economically and Polictically designed against tyranny, we only designed one that way (our constitution/bill of rights) but no one wanted to change the undemocratic economic system and peferred the mimicry of Master/Slave, Lord/Serf with Employer/Employee instead of having each individual have democractic control within the organization they participate (we have democracy within our government but not our businesses) so of course over time the business use their undemocratic "power" to undue any democracy and w/e else is in its way of its own goals (under captialism its profit)
      Im not saying oligarchy won't happen im saying lets design an economic system like our political system was designed against it, not go o well it's natural let leave captialism be and just expect someone to horribly abuse it every 30-50 years

    • @santoud
      @santoud 4 роки тому

      @@marketsocialist6421 The revolution is not complete, I agree with you. Your constitution is one of the best of the world for sure. It's not complet as you pinpointed a great problem. Your forefathers did great with the tools and the knowledge they had, our generation must improve it, so that we hold tyranny at bay always vigilant !
      Nice to see i'm not alone ... Thanks.
      Edit.
      I comme from an ex-communist country, communism is a fairy tale don't believe it, or like the sirens in Odyseus it will kill you with their fantastic voices.
      Edit2 : what you are talking about is democratic rule in the business world. Or absolut democracy. Communism is an other beast, it only will work for machines/robots/ia .

    • @marketsocialist6421
      @marketsocialist6421 4 роки тому +1

      @@santoud theres alot more who agree then disagree i think, alot are just steepped in propoganda and people don't explain their positions well as we get stuck in the parts others don't understand instead of the parts other do understand, if we all focused on the parts we each understood im sure we could rapidly move forward as a specie's :)

  • @charlesbourgoigne2130
    @charlesbourgoigne2130 4 роки тому +20

    I like how you propose concrete solutions to neoliberalism, Yanis. I dont really understand economics, so its easy to fall prey to the neoliberalists/ crony capitalists. What I and I think people need is education and you Yanis and Team are a hope, one of the very very few hopes that we have. Please continue the education. I am supporting you and tell us what more we can do! Democracy everywhere, also in Europe, is at a great danger!

    • @C_R_O_M________
      @C_R_O_M________ 4 роки тому +2

      He actually COUNTS on the lack of economic literacy from all of you. His message is full of BS and I'll do a clip to analyze his message ASAP. This guy is looking to make a living out of our taxes. In fact he has done it already!

    • @MrBallynally2
      @MrBallynally2 4 роки тому +1

      Or, i don't really understand economics so fall prey to the socialist Utopia idea..

  • @yannide-power6443
    @yannide-power6443 4 роки тому +20

    bravo congratulations

  • @jones1351
    @jones1351 4 роки тому +36

    Humanity's tombstone will read, 'They had the solution, but were too broken to apply it'
    Or at least that will be the thesis of some PhD, distant descendant of the Dung Beetle.
    Or we can get off our rusty, dusty and do something.

    • @stevecon4894
      @stevecon4894 4 роки тому +1

      Adorable PlutoSocialist - Smug narcissist - peddling Gleichschaltung of the left - has the nerve to call OTHER people fascists & tyrants! Look up "irony" boofhead......(not you, him!)

  • @leoa155
    @leoa155 4 роки тому +120

    Only source of hope around here

    • @sammysame
      @sammysame 4 роки тому +6

      I guess you need to watch some Anand Giridharadas...or all of thems grandfather; Noam Chomsky

    • @pedrocostaesilva7239
      @pedrocostaesilva7239 4 роки тому

      No doubt

    • @kuwapa
      @kuwapa 4 роки тому +4

      Chris hedges also speaks eloquently about the nature of hope and fighting the good fight irregardless of whether you're guaranteed victory.

    • @user-qn6yt3zx3w
      @user-qn6yt3zx3w 4 роки тому +1

      Novara media too

    • @fredfredrickson5436
      @fredfredrickson5436 4 роки тому

      We are legion.

  • @mariotrigonis7866
    @mariotrigonis7866 4 роки тому +66

    Bravo Yanni,
    We need more leaders like you
    To make a positive change for a world
    In crisis.
    Thank you for all your great work!

    • @SunnySalasar
      @SunnySalasar 4 роки тому +2

      We do, but consider how within a day all social left leaning media in the world swoops down on Yanis based off some fake story invented by some german artist.
      Or any other thing in hope to destroy him or anyone like him.
      And how often this repeats for all the media that constitutes all that is good and left, that they destroy people like this and praise completely corrupt people instead.
      Been going on for decades longer than we are alive, as if there's a system to it.
      Sure, conservative media does it too, but why should anyone care if they do what's natural to them while the "progressive" side prevents class traitors to their class from changing anything for the better for the lower classes.

    • @anmihovil
      @anmihovil 4 роки тому +1

      It's Yani, he fought for his name to be written with one 'n' since young age...

    • @mariotrigonis7866
      @mariotrigonis7866 4 роки тому +2

      My apologies for the misspelling of his name.
      I was thinking in Greek for a minute
      And still got it wrong.
      Thank you for bringing it to my attention.

    • @mariotrigonis7866
      @mariotrigonis7866 4 роки тому +1

      I agree wholeheartedly with your statement.
      Let’s not forget that political affiliations whether from the left or from the right a created by the ruling class whose only ambition is control
      And power.
      I appreciate and admire all voices
      That perpetuate a hope for goodness for humanity and the earth. A centrist path would work but how can a delicate balance as such maintained with human frailties like Greed just to name one.

    • @benbell9170
      @benbell9170 4 роки тому +2

      yes, a great leader. We all saw how he failed to manage the economic crisis in Greece back in 2015!!!

  • @arey8349
    @arey8349 4 роки тому +13

    What a gorgeous man with an equally fabulous brain - was a fan even before this :)

    • @Sam-if9up
      @Sam-if9up 4 роки тому +2

      Swoon and brain swoon

    • @accd2048
      @accd2048 4 роки тому +1

      He can try to go to Venezuela to help out ;)

    • @Vauxhall1434
      @Vauxhall1434 4 роки тому

      youtube porn?

  • @evdaribarovski5698
    @evdaribarovski5698 4 роки тому +13

    I love listening to this amazing person who speaks the truth and I agree on everything he says. A very wise compassionate individual. Bravo Yanni.

  • @Sarah-said
    @Sarah-said 4 роки тому +3

    We need this in the USA now! We need to grow a similar movement in our country along with the DiEM in Europe and encourage the same in other countries. This has the potential to bring the whole world out of poverty while bringing equality and true democracy to all.

  • @jacobb8397
    @jacobb8397 4 роки тому +5

    videos like this remind me, that there is still something worth fighting for.
    thank you, Yanis, I know you will never give up.

    • @StefanMX
      @StefanMX 4 роки тому +1

      Its worth fighting for, I have experienced it his myself in Greece, banks closed, ATM shut down, complete standstill of the economy worser than the covid lockdown. Its worth fighting for a complete derailment of the economy.

  • @mansoorali2785
    @mansoorali2785 4 роки тому +49

    The problem is there are very few people in the world, who knows how this Ponzi system is running till now.
    Will share this video.

    • @amrahmed7856
      @amrahmed7856 4 роки тому +4

      You think economists, investors, business owners, politicians, and financial analysts don't know this? They do. All they say in response is, so what? We're rich aren't we?

    • @willitworks
      @willitworks 4 роки тому +5

      every one know yet, the don't like to disturb their comfort.
      its only a matter of time until every one pays the price throw the next great catastrophes made by the 10k years great weather shift

    • @philiposborne982
      @philiposborne982 4 роки тому +3

      @@amrahmed7856 most of them have mortagages to pay, they don't speak out through fear. They speak out they lose their status and position, then the bank takes their house, then their wife leaves, with the children. You underestimate how many people are under the thumb. Almost everyone is a serf.

    • @amrahmed7856
      @amrahmed7856 4 роки тому +1

      @@philiposborne982 I do agree that most of the population is marginalized. It's the elites that know how corrupt the system is and continue to support it

    • @C_R_O_M________
      @C_R_O_M________ 4 роки тому

      @@amrahmed7856 Even if what you say is true, which of course it isn't, the current western crony system is far better than, say, the Saudi system when you have a bunch of Royals that bribe their population with oil money so that they don't revolt and butcher them! At least in the West certain big players see prison time, see economic destruction and so on.

  • @chuckwiller1638
    @chuckwiller1638 4 роки тому +2

    Yanis, you are a voice of sanity and clarity. Thank you.

  • @kulchitskywright
    @kulchitskywright 3 роки тому +3

    Wish I had Yanis as my Economics teacher. He gives you so knowledge garnished with excellent humour. I long to meet and learn from this man.

  • @Baustelle97
    @Baustelle97 4 роки тому +3

    Keep on spreading hope for all of us. I have followed you for few weeks and I hope many others are joining day after day ✊🏼

  • @homolgus1
    @homolgus1 4 роки тому +9

    Yanis is a great man

  • @danielbtwd
    @danielbtwd 4 роки тому +6

    The real problem lies with the fact that our judiciary no longer serves us.

  • @johnconnors4508
    @johnconnors4508 4 роки тому +17

    We need to move beyond Capitalism and to a system that works for the many and not just the few.

    • @chesshooligan1282
      @chesshooligan1282 4 роки тому +5

      That sounds like code for socialism to me. I think I'll pass, but I swear I won't try to stop you from moving to Venezuela.

    • @chesshooligan1282
      @chesshooligan1282 4 роки тому +6

      @Granville's Hammer How interesting... life must be great over there, but I don't see anybody moving in. I've seen millions moving out, though, just like people escape from Cuba when they can. Venezuelans are everywhere in South America, but especially in Chile, the most prosperous economy in the continent -- how strange. So when are you moving to your South American socialist paradise? I'll chip in for the ticket if you promise to stay. You commies are crazy, and as Yuri Bezmenov said, no amount of evidence will ever be enough to convince you. You're also a pack of losers.

    • @accd2048
      @accd2048 4 роки тому +1

      Granville's Hammer when was the last time you went to see it for your own eyes? Have you been to Xingjiang or talked to the Uighur population and seen the CCP crisis directly in the fear that the live everyday? Capitalist system is far from perfect and socialism is a better idea (in theory) but when greed and corruption enter, it’s all gone. Huge problem in my personal opinion is the corporate greed, that made countries use their people to become slaves of corporations, to have a crazy growth of population without any measure of consequences if they can or can’t afford to have more children that in the future could become into thieves or god knows what (not their fault), to legalize drugs and to kill the cartels right at the heart of their business and teach people to be responsible of their own actions. There are many truths out there, too many sides to consider. I think before giving big statements people need to acknowledge that they have been fed too many lies and need critical thinking (people see sadly more value in a Cardi B that is proud to have drugged and robbed men, than to people that defend true ideals not bound by left or right or corporations ) from their own side and from others before talking out loud an idea....travel has been my best school and I encourage you not to believe but to travel and form your own opinion based on being as neutral as you can before you make your own choice. Have a nice day

    • @LBJTV
      @LBJTV 4 роки тому

      The few are the few for a reason. They're too lazy to get ahead and it's easier to complain about ''the bankers''.

    • @lorrainewest7408
      @lorrainewest7408 4 роки тому +1

      @@chesshooligan1282 Go find your Hitler & tango away.

  • @epicusdoomicusdelirius
    @epicusdoomicusdelirius 4 роки тому +3

    Comedy Central needs to jump on this and get this man a special before its too late

  • @AK-tx5lr
    @AK-tx5lr 4 роки тому +3

    I totally agree with you! We need to unite and fight back!

  • @tingsomskjer5975
    @tingsomskjer5975 4 роки тому +2

    Problem is not capitalism, but the intermix of state, legislation and corporations - which is closer to socialism.

    • @funbarsolaris2822
      @funbarsolaris2822 4 роки тому

      Utter nonsense, we've had decades of political elites telling us markets know best, nationalised industry doesn't work and we need to privatise everything under the sun. A doctrine they have strictly followed and ruthlessly executed. Trade unions have been demonised and diminished as well as workers rights and progressive taxation. Tax cuts and off shore havens for the wealthy are constantly enabled by our political establishment. All of those things are the literal opposite of socialist, all socialists oppose them and want to do the exact opposite.
      When the state works hand in hand with corporations to extract wealth from the people it is not socialism but capitalism, its propaganda about free & fair competition is just that, propaganda. The state has always worked with (or sometimes more accurately for) the large corporations and businesses in capitalist economies going all the way back to the East India Company. Its time to learn

    • @alejandrosrwebmaster
      @alejandrosrwebmaster 4 роки тому +1

      @@funbarsolaris2822 Well no, they tell us "capitalism is the less worst system" and that it need to be "regulated" because it bad. They increased taxes, they rescue and subsidize corporations with taxpayer money. They regulate all sectors in a way only a few corporations can operate. They tell corporations how to work and they guarantee the profit and socialize the looses.
      They tell you all the things I said before is unregulated capitalism and that we need more regulations and planning, so they can remain in power doing the same, stealing workers money. Business men are they enemies of capitalism, they want a public contract a subside and regulations to keep competition away.
      Capitalism is property rights, free trade, deflation. The opposite of what we have.

  • @courtcomposer
    @courtcomposer 3 роки тому +1

    Short and clear Thanks.

  • @green2stayecoswdmarketingn339
    @green2stayecoswdmarketingn339 4 роки тому +6

    I will be sending this to both sides of our Government here in Australia!

  • @sammysame
    @sammysame 4 роки тому +2

    The one thing Yanis stands out from Anand Giridharadas and Noam Chomsky is that he ended with an actionable plan for the left - We need more like him!!

  • @michaelb1348
    @michaelb1348 4 роки тому +1

    the issue is that we don't actually have free market capitalism

  • @andreamolton8226
    @andreamolton8226 4 роки тому +1

    Thank you Yianis.

  • @robertomartinez7268
    @robertomartinez7268 4 роки тому +3

    Very well said!

  • @graemesydney38
    @graemesydney38 4 роки тому +3

    I love the empty bottle backdrop. My backdrop is empty coffees cups.

  • @lorrainewest7408
    @lorrainewest7408 4 роки тому

    Wow. I did not know about this man a great deal. But someone like him gives me so much hope in matters of finance. A legend in thinking and balance. So much said is after my own heart. Especially the Control & Propaganda issues. So true. And thank you for supporting Mr Assange another person who informed people of deeds done worldwide in our name. I worship the cause.

  • @theendofdaysprophet
    @theendofdaysprophet 4 роки тому +1

    Good to see you Yanis! Thanks DiEM25

  • @MrKennyBones
    @MrKennyBones 4 роки тому +1

    This is fantastic, this guy knows what’s going on

  • @evdaribarovski5698
    @evdaribarovski5698 4 роки тому +3

    I wish we could go back to the good years which to me were between the 60's and 70's they were wonderful years growing up
    and working, people cared more about one another, in our workplace things were fair. But slowly the increase of consumerism increase of goods available wages started to go up and we became consumers of just about everything. And unfortunately consumerism is one of our greatest problems. But we are living on BORROWED MONEY, not many people having savings in the bank and I hate the banks because if you buy a property for example $500,000 dollars again we are deceiving ourselves that we can afford these ridiculous inflated prices, ( I used work in real estate) if suddenly you lose your job or one loses their job well the first thing you think of is the bloody mortgage. The bank doesn't care, they have your house, they won't lose anything.
    The other people I dislike the most is the real estate industry people because they are the ones who misdiagonise the true value of a property and inflate the price so much because of bloody competition and the fact that they know people are earning more money than ever before. I couldn't care less about capitalism is now greed, corruptions and its immoral, its not acceptable the way things are working now absolutely not. Once we used to call people millionaires, now we have Billionaires who want to make rockets to fly to the moon and back I wish they would stay there. I think we are lacking basic COMMON BLOODY SENSE.
    I had a wonderful boss, who used to fill the wall of our company now and then, saying for EVERY PROBLEM THERE IS A
    SOLUTION! I agree, give me a problem and I will solve it. Didn't mean to write so much but I am fed up with Corporations
    running the world and their greed. We are going through the stage of GREED in this day and age.

    • @mariotrigonis7866
      @mariotrigonis7866 4 роки тому +1

      All your words are the truth.
      Just remember that all things in the universe cycle meaning they are always changing. No system ever stay
      The same. Be ready when this one will collapse prepare.
      Remain steadfast and remember to
      Believe and don’t loose hope
      And the greatest to love.
      The holy trinity.

    • @alejandrosrwebmaster
      @alejandrosrwebmaster 4 роки тому +1

      The consumerism problem you say its true. Government induce consumerism via inflation, keynesianism, policies... so GDP is artificially inflated with things we produced without wanting them.

    • @evdaribarovski5698
      @evdaribarovski5698 4 роки тому +1

      @@alejandrosrwebmaster precisely.

  • @holacuba2001
    @holacuba2001 4 роки тому +2

    Let us establish maximal income and maximal personal wealth allowed. Good starting point: FORBES billionaires list.

  • @dorobo81
    @dorobo81 4 роки тому +3

    Godspeed.

  • @BestCosmologist
    @BestCosmologist 4 роки тому +1

    It's so easy to criticize a system and highlight the flaws. The real trick is to come up with a solution that has a shot at getting implemented.

  • @mk1st
    @mk1st 4 роки тому

    One of the problems I see is that the paramount legal requirement for corporations is to make money for their shareholders. This leads to increasingly short term decision-making and things such as stock buybacks. Shareholders should get something back for their investment in the company but only after the workers have been adequately compensated. I'd like to see a change to the tax system which REWARDS companies, in the form of a tax cut, that close the gap between the lowest paid worker and the CEO. Make it a financial BENEFIT for the company to pay their workers rather than being in a wage race to the bottom. If millions of workers were to get paid significantly more they would be contributing so much more in taxes themselves that it would actually be a good thing that companies could brag about not paying any taxes.

  • @SerenityReceiver
    @SerenityReceiver 4 роки тому +5

    @4:45 That smile, classic 😁

  • @cheninblanc8208
    @cheninblanc8208 4 роки тому +1

    well said.........

  • @jake4024
    @jake4024 4 роки тому +1

    Agreed

  • @dennisandrikos7167
    @dennisandrikos7167 4 роки тому

    You're a good person brother and neighbour giasou from Australia

  • @alexgoslar4057
    @alexgoslar4057 4 роки тому +1

    Thank you for sharing Yanis.

  • @PetraKann
    @PetraKann 4 роки тому

    Clear and concise as usual.
    Control of information has always been the main battle ground.
    “Those who tell the stories rule society” [Plato]

  • @thomasleion2309
    @thomasleion2309 4 роки тому +2

    well, all I see in this is just a lot of symptoms on the problem that most countries don´t have a real democratic system( like the one in Switzerland) were elit, political and administration are forced to follow and protect the individuals choises, rights and assets...instead of be a corrupt superior cancer on them.

  • @kennethhamilton4827
    @kennethhamilton4827 4 роки тому

    just subscribed......brilliant

  • @scrambaba
    @scrambaba 4 роки тому +1

    So true.

  • @1LaOriental
    @1LaOriental 4 роки тому +1

    Bravo. This gives me hope! 👏👏🏻👏🏼👏🏽👏🏾👏🏿✊️✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
    "Capitalism is the predatory stage of human development" Albert Einstein

  • @dennismiller5725
    @dennismiller5725 4 роки тому

    Thanks

  • @jakartafinance9389
    @jakartafinance9389 4 роки тому

    Sometimes I listen to Yanis as a gentle sleep meditation. His voice + intelligence 🙏😽

  • @jemgem9593
    @jemgem9593 4 роки тому

    Short, sweet and to the point. Excellent

  • @bluecamus5162
    @bluecamus5162 4 роки тому +17

    Spot on; however, it's edited to come out very fast, too fast.

    • @yabits
      @yabits 4 роки тому +2

      It is fast .. no disagreement... however, if/when you play it a few times the beauty of the argument comes out in a way that I know I would have missed had I not been compelled to replay it. Like a spiral staircase ascending.

    • @C_R_O_M________
      @C_R_O_M________ 4 роки тому

      @@yabits There were NO arguments in this. Just FALSE NARRATIVE and sensationalism like "the misanthropy of capitalism". I'll make a clip to analyze all of his BS here. I'll try to post it back.

    • @yabits
      @yabits 4 роки тому

      @@C_R_O_M________ Sorry, dude. You're at least 140 years behind the times. Henry George carefully documented the devastation to humanity caused by industrial capitalism in "Progress and Poverty." He made a cogent argument that I have yet to see refuted. --

    • @C_R_O_M________
      @C_R_O_M________ 4 роки тому

      @@yabits Am I the one who's left 140 years behind or you who site a guy that died in 1897? I mean literally! Have you read Von Bawerk's criticism on Marx? How about MIses, Hayek and more recently Rothbard? How about Adam Smith? Any idea why today's system is aligned with fascism and socialism and has little to do with free market capitalism? Read this: www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2015/Samuelsfascism.html

  • @astralp4292
    @astralp4292 4 роки тому

    The second point will be hard as there are severe divisions in the left about the ecologist programm, some are in a naturalistic point of view, following bio, permaculture, anti-nuclear, and another group focusing on destructing carbon, and aligning on the GIEC

  • @manuel2011correo
    @manuel2011correo 4 роки тому

    Gracias

  • @jacquelinesanchezgil4590
    @jacquelinesanchezgil4590 4 роки тому

    Great person Yanis!!!!!

  • @Peter-df2ip
    @Peter-df2ip 4 роки тому

    Interesting thoughts, even though I don’t agree with all the conclusions. The implied solution is government intervention and we know how inefficient governments can be and mostly are both in rich and developing countries. However, I see merit I open debate about transforming the current capitalist system to something more labour friendly.

  • @WillaLamour
    @WillaLamour 4 роки тому

    Exactly!

  • @pedrocostaesilva7239
    @pedrocostaesilva7239 4 роки тому +2

    Revolution is needeed

  • @richiesd1
    @richiesd1 4 роки тому +2

    So true! Yannis explains so well.

  • @jjandorliadul
    @jjandorliadul 4 роки тому +2

    Great video.
    Meanwhile, many in the nebulous left in America seem to be blindly falling for proportional oppression.

  • @kforest2745
    @kforest2745 3 роки тому

    You are so right “constantly undermines itself.” It’s redundancy.

  • @sjoncb
    @sjoncb 4 роки тому

    This is *brilliant*

  • @mrweasel
    @mrweasel 4 роки тому +1

    That was spot on

  • @arturonegretearte
    @arturonegretearte 4 роки тому +1

    Please read his book, is awesome

  • @kennethmarshall306
    @kennethmarshall306 4 роки тому

    Well said

  • @Zapzoo-iz5el
    @Zapzoo-iz5el 4 роки тому +1

    Here are 3 problems in the way of socialism. Masses are ignorant, greedy and want to stay that way. Ask yourself this, there is a reason that despite all the suffering, hardship and poverty capitalism survives while ideologies come and go. Capitalism is and always will be in a state of crisis, so its a natural state of the system. It is based on our flaws and matches the laws of nature. So, it always survives.

    • @janetdouglas1272
      @janetdouglas1272 4 роки тому

      So Capitalism is a Religion for you then. God-given and eternal.
      That's pure hogwash!
      Just like the eternal divine right of kings. That "eternal" thought was crushed and destroyed by the people in 1789 and the thinkers before that.

    • @Zapzoo-iz5el
      @Zapzoo-iz5el 4 роки тому

      Janet Douglas
      Religion?!!! What gave you that idea?
      No, not at all. All I am saying is that people are simply ignorant and Yanis is an idealist at best. Do I think idealism serves a purpose. Yes, there is a place for idealism so long as it does not seize political power because it performs just as bad as theocracy. Just like a religion it cannot tolerate pluralism and diversity of thought. We have seen this in USSR and to some extent in China. Don’t get me wrong, I am not a capitalist, in fact I despise many aspects of capitalism, yet cannot see a viable alternative. So, we are where we are and unless suddenly 7 billion people become intellectual idealists overnight we are better off reforming the system or just let it evolve naturally.

  • @TheDreadfulCurtain
    @TheDreadfulCurtain 4 роки тому

    Glad I support double down news it really delivers an alternative to right wing lies and establishment bias.Than you. Maintaining hope in these dark days.

  • @zigwinger2915
    @zigwinger2915 3 роки тому

    How do we enforce the public equity fund?

  • @miguimau
    @miguimau 4 роки тому +1

    That´s a powerful and very accurate narrative. Thanks, Mr. Varoufakis.

  • @chrislecky710
    @chrislecky710 4 роки тому

    Whats profound is that I'm 40 and its taken this long to hear the truth, whats even more significant to me personally is that it came from a french man. What are we playing at.

  • @ugiakyi-wenda4705
    @ugiakyi-wenda4705 4 роки тому +1

    0:33 - Prof. Varoufakis did not frase it right. Is not that it produces [...].Capitalists and other
    major Gatekeepers haven't deem it effectively.
    [...] had been neglected by capitalism predecessors as well. hasn'tpursued ?
    (one is not necessarily recommending or pleading for a market expansion into it...).
    And if so, what is that purpose ?
    If one is not mistaken; almost two decades ago " economics " was precisely defined as
    the means by which both private and public entities - not only - study - but - make choices about " limited "
    resources allocation.
    In the name of not pressing to hard on.., and since most definitions evolve;
    remains unresolved. Another term " artificial scarcity "
    raisingreferred to as
    efficient wealth creating device. Scarcity usually results in price hike
    when it comes to primary goods and services (those that folks can't go without).
    One does not wish to imply that capitalism is anything other than a work in progress. It should also be
    tried artificialperspective !!!
    there is a limited understanding of the capitalist system and of its potential.
    Like Prof. Varoufakis sais.

  • @savedemocracy2385
    @savedemocracy2385 4 роки тому

    If you are a single mother with three children by the same father, who has never once paid for their maintenance, your children will grow up deprived. It does not help to blame the immorality of the poor on the immorality of the bankers.

  • @Experimentaccount1
    @Experimentaccount1 4 роки тому

    Much love for DiEM25

  • @designthinkingwithgian
    @designthinkingwithgian 4 роки тому

    Why is so hard to understand that something can be both great and destructive at the same time? you don't have to pick a side..

  • @wizzkid3626
    @wizzkid3626 4 роки тому

    He summarised my thoughts exactly!

  • @ritchienegrea5779
    @ritchienegrea5779 4 роки тому +1

    So we can see the problems. What’s the answer?? To fix the problem?? What do we do about it ?? Damn

    • @boci11
      @boci11 4 роки тому

      Yanis just philosophizes what he learned in business ivey school and being a capitalist, he never gave any solutions to anything... We seen that in the case of Greece few years back, when it was drowning in debt and social unrest !

    • @mariotrigonis7866
      @mariotrigonis7866 4 роки тому

      All one man can do against the machine is voice his concern and discontent, but put a million men together and their is impact.
      The new revolution will have to be a green revolution to help the earth
      Heal from humanities devastation.
      No political system can realize stability with out taking care of the earth first.
      Humanity has been brainwashed for so long to live in deprivation that it cannot envision a symbiotic relationship with the earth.
      Sadly if we don’t wake up we are all
      Doomed.
      My apologies for the grim vision.
      Can you imagine the possibilities if we worked with Mother Nature?

    • @alejandrosrwebmaster
      @alejandrosrwebmaster 4 роки тому

      Gold standard and 100% Reserve requirement.

  • @hemispace641
    @hemispace641 4 роки тому

    It all looks good on paper...

  • @decnijfkris3706
    @decnijfkris3706 4 роки тому

    The thing is Varoufakis is that most leaders are not so smart. They thrive on expert knowledge of subordinates and are unapt to find out this theory. We have worldwide very few people how could activate the hole process as described.

  • @ForeignerMishka
    @ForeignerMishka 4 роки тому +1

    He exactly deserve to be the president of a great country....

    • @StefanMX
      @StefanMX 4 роки тому

      He already had a complete fail as finance minister.

    • @ForeignerMishka
      @ForeignerMishka 4 роки тому

      @@StefanMX Are you sure he resigned because he was unsuccessful?!?!....

  • @MrZerausogaitnas
    @MrZerausogaitnas 4 роки тому

    Great

  • @kamalpreetsingh1686
    @kamalpreetsingh1686 4 роки тому +1

    Production forces are still improving under capitalism, capitalism has not over but it has more life because industrial revolution (4.0) is going on under capitalism but in near future this system will collapse but it has still more life to develop human society and technology also....

    • @DogsOnAcid
      @DogsOnAcid 4 роки тому

      Capitalism had a golden age in the post-WW2 era. Continuous growth and wealth accumulation, families could afford to have only 1 person working (husband) and sustain the entire family, job opportunities due to reconstruction and growth, introduction of socialized healthcare in Europe, you could own a house by your early 20s and see it increase in value over time. Now that era has come to an end, even if technology continues to improve. We don't have to wait till humanity cannot develop any further to replace capitalism with a better, fairer system.

  • @crissieroserose
    @crissieroserose 4 роки тому

    brilliant , totally to the point !

  • @luisfbjunqueira5837
    @luisfbjunqueira5837 4 роки тому

    Thank you.

  • @shalinisingh3300
    @shalinisingh3300 4 роки тому

    We need to hear more from you ..respect

  • @lusianacastiglione3064
    @lusianacastiglione3064 4 роки тому

    Brilliant analysis!

  • @chasewhitehead2136
    @chasewhitehead2136 4 роки тому

    Fascism is harvesting the fruit of discontent. How terrifying accurate.

  • @boyax7825
    @boyax7825 4 роки тому

    correct

  • @hossein3494
    @hossein3494 4 роки тому

    I like the pitch, What are the side effects of capital control? And why it is required?

  • @VinsLeMans
    @VinsLeMans 4 роки тому

    We need to share this awareness to everyone! I’m sure at this point anyone would feel something is wrong they just might not have the knowledge of what it is and this explains briefly and plainly the plagues of modern society dictated by a failed capitalist system

  • @infinitysteppingstone331
    @infinitysteppingstone331 4 роки тому

    This guy💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

  • @isabelvaldivieso702
    @isabelvaldivieso702 4 роки тому

    Gracias por los subtítulos en español. Y por tu gran trabajo de información sobre política internacional.

  • @mchaz8320
    @mchaz8320 4 роки тому

    g00d luck there,,

  • @mediumstudio
    @mediumstudio 4 роки тому

    Capitalism is not the problem - greed is ... Capitalism gives you the opportunity to make mass sums of money that you can in-turn use to help others. Unfortunately, not always, this is not the result. I believe money should be diverted to those in need but to force companies to do so will produce opposition. The best way to persuade others is by example.

  • @Santiagoarango1994
    @Santiagoarango1994 4 роки тому

    Systematic auto-destructionism is to blame on the State (Government/Political Power), not on proper capitalism.

  • @the_real_economics
    @the_real_economics 4 роки тому

    It is not capitalism in crisis, but socialism in crisis. We have socialism on a massive scale nowadays, when governments bail-out companies too big to fail - that is not capitalism but socialism for big and rich, when central banks create money out of thin air to finance governments or save financial markets - that is also socialism, when commercial banks create money out of thin air when lending money - that is also socialism - you are stealing purchasing power from the productive.

  • @levimust4479
    @levimust4479 4 роки тому

    Good plan, but how to do it?

  • @andrepereira5735
    @andrepereira5735 4 роки тому

    Amazing resume!