Yanis Varoufakis on Jeff Bezos and Amazon
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- Опубліковано 29 лис 2020
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In this episode of Another Now, Yanis Varoufakis focuses on one of the most powerful companies in the world -- Amazon / with a 30min Q&A.
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The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the Axe, for the Axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood, he was one of them.
Indeed the vicious circle! Break it open whenever you can.. even in parts
That's a nice metaphor
@@AlexeiRamotar yes indeed, a methaphor but nice NO! Its Sad cause it says:
By keeping on selling his books via Amazon he FEEDS Amazon!
Let him sell his books via smaller retailers! Alternative, real progressive, CONSCIOUS retailers do exist which attracts even more people to buy his books! Otherwise its a Vicious circle indeed!
Does he want that? NO! So stop it where you can!
So, his argument I don’t agree with, doesn’t hold in the end!!
Yes, a Vicious circle which Yanis don’t want but he keeps it ALIVE! Plenty alternative Conscious retailers are in this world for his next book(s)!
I like that... 😄
Thanks Yanis you are a truly brilliant intellectual, orator and teacher. One of the most important people of our time.
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You, sir, are on the top my list of people living that I'd like to spend a day in conversation with. Power to the people!
I love your vision Yanus
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In the US : Think People's Party. You will never hear such truth-telling on mainstream media. My hat is off to you Mr. Varoufakis and I thank you.
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DiEM TV was the best thing that happened to me in corona times. I'm really grateful for your effort.
Thank you Ariyan for following our streams :)
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Such an inspiring narration. I feel empowered. I hope it lasts.
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Talent makes millions, corruption makes billions.
Be still my heart! This is the work of divine intervention! Bravo! 🌬🔥💓
Excellent talk Yanis, thank you
thank you for such eloquence. You lift my spirit every time I hear you
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Thank you Yanis, I really loved this part: Power always rests on the law of large numbers. No despot, oligarch or entrepreneur has enough power to rule millions without their tacit consent. The truth about despotic power lies not in despot`s weapons, bank accounts or computer servers but in the minds of those that despot controls. as long as the many believe they are powerless, they remain so... I think all the people should remember this forever.
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Organize, organize, organize.
I'm beginning to wonder if even my local Doctor's practice now belongs to some corporation. The staff come and go like those in an Amazon warehouse and when I try to make an appointment or to visit, it's like trying to get into the Pentagon. And I'm now so unfamiliar to them that at interviews they look at the computer screen more than they look at me. It IS efficient - in its way - but are we patients becoming livestock? LONDON, UK.
I've waited over 6 days for a Doctor's call back. I'd have more chance of catching him in the car park before he gets into his expensive car...
Sounds like an American doctor
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Recently I was trying to make an appointment with go
The receptionist was demanding that I did let her know what was my health issue to what I replied that was nothing of her business
And I told her that all I wanted from her was a next slot appointment with go
In the end walked out and decided move to a new gp if that is available
GP not go I mean GP
I love love love this video! Thanks to you Yanis!!
That moment when you realize Yanis has been thinking pretty much along the exact same lines as yourself but unlike yourself is able to practically translate it from brain to book.... A strange but really pretty awesome moment indeed.
This pandemic has pushed us to take a long look in the mirror and actually see how utterly lost we have been.
Has it? Seems like politics as normal.
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Yanis, you are my new and biggest hero! You're goddam amazing!!! :-)
Keep on keeping on🌹Yanis and Diem25
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Greetings from Mauritius. I'm urging my students of Economics (secondary school) to read the amazing books by Yanis. Thank you for sharing your wisdom.
Great integral and courageous voice in this singular narrative. Thank you Yanis
I want to get this book and read it out loud with friends. So much to think about discuss and to find ways to act - internationally and locally !
I'd like to be part of that discussion :)
We are burning down the wrong Amazon!!! I have never used it and I never will. Support from Slovenia
I would like to see Yanis on the Jimmy Dore show. It would be a good exchange with a wide audience.
He was lol Jimmy showcases a clip of him
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Keep it going, Yanis!
brilliant brilliant man
Dear Sir you are a most wonderful human being. All power and strength to you and your work. God speed!
I just learnt a way of avoiding Amazon to pop up on searches: Begin search: then space: then minus sign (-) then Amazon....it really works!
Fab! Will do it from now on, but have never used Amazon anyway
The key to beating Amazon is:
1. In the USA use it ALL THE TIME undo it becomes so all powerful that the ONLY thing to do will be to nationalize or as it will put all the other stores it is business.
Outside the USA : BAN IT
Amazon is a MONOPSONY so can be BANNED entirely.
Then CREATE national or Supranational store NATIONALISED that will perform the same function but with state/worker/customer ownership.
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@@fuckfannyfiddlefart - haha love your handle.
Problem with the desire to ban Amazon is that assumes the courts have not been corrupted ☹️
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Thank you 🙏🏻
You are the voice of sanity. Thank You
Yanis also managed to address cancel culture here haha. He is so brilliant.
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Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
🙏🏼for utilizing you creativity, intellect and passion for the 🌎
Please share this and talk about it, Yanis is offering us a way out of the injustice, inequality and rubbish deal most of us suffer from, at the push of a button we don’t need to go out and protest! Barb
Theme song is brilliant
Beautiful show. Great commentary as always!
Yanis, thank you for the talk! Always inspiring ! Might I ask you to please start using a clip on mic to improve the sound. Thanks!
I am a classical liberal free marketeer. But one thing can change my mind about the role of Government: is it inevitable of free markets that corporations continue accumulating capital tot he extent that they control governments. Of course, where government is involved the market’s freedom is to be questioned, but “too big to fail,” corporate welfare and the cooperation of businesses in the surveillance state go beyond the pale. Can it truly be inevitable, rather than subject to intelligent parsimonious intervention?
Sharing this man with all my friends
I already do it. But, will coordinate my single effort with yours.
Signed
one of the Ants
Some very important and powerful arguments there. I think that the most important aspect of it is looking at how to address fascism and those susceptible to becoming fascists.
Yanis, you are my kindred spirit. I preach on a daily basis about Bezos. He is the one man on the planet that change the economic system. All he has to do: Simply keep a billion and bequest the remainder to all of his employees based on time served. Every subsequent new employee becomes a shareholder after working for specified period of time.
Thank You Beloved
here near Los Angeles, it is Lockdown #4!
Yanis, I appreciate your extensive knowledge of American Monopolies & Olgiopolies. Please feel free to use the phrase "robber-barons"
Thank you.
AWS (Amazon Web Services) is more gigantic and all pervasive than the online retail side of Amazon
And they shut down parlor
We need to take back our courts. It's why this is happening because our judiciary have sold out.
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The opening song is Alan Price - "Poor People"
Yanis is going to have a field day talking about the Gamestop financial guerrilla attack of these past few days!!
@Crisis Cycling. Absolutely. No land tax for organic/permies & small holders or we'll be toast too!
Re. Privatised public utilities. Forty years ago the "THAMES WATER" water rate of my 'umble London abode was approx. £4 per annum. Now it's approx. £1000. Is this the work of those generally referred to as "businessmen" or those we amiable Cockneys know as "cunce"?
Yeia Sou, Yianni! Keep it up!
This is similar to a suggestion I read during the housing crisis of 2008. The housing market derivatives were failing, and so the government stepped in to buy the failed derivatives. If instead of this, the government had stepped in to pay the mortgages on the failing properties, the highly leveraged derivatives would have been turned back into stable values. But the banks, which by this time had set themselves up to profit from shorting the companies that were in trouble with the failing derivatives, would have lost all their potential profits on the shorts.
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Thank you
Great man
By no means an easy listen, but the message is extremely powerful if we make a point of understanding it. I've been boycotting Amazon for a long time now, but as a consequence I have no power to become involved in strategic actions such as Yanis proposes!
This is a serious game-changer! If we allow it ...
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In the USA we aren't required to pay the Social Security tax on any income beyond the Social Security Wage Base. In 2021, this limit is $142,800, up from the 2020 limit of $137,700.
Suppose we were to do away with "Income Taxes" and remove the limit on SS?
6.2% of "ALL Income" (GDP) would be directed toward Its intended purpose, SOCIAL SECURITY.
it's theft, meaning yes, tax without limit. until we repurpose our society away from hollow materialism and tax shelters, we are doomed to the bloodsucking oligarchs
this guy looks so shiny and Healthy ! :-)
I love you so much Yanis 💗
Corporations are now people, so how are they allowed to escape taxation when all other people have no such escape of taxes???
That was pretty good
Contemporary and inclusive. I appreciate the thinking Yanis has done on the structure of our economy.
Another now is a great book.!!
A taxation on amazon or on giant tech companies will be put on us ultimately through services we cannot give up, like internet, tv.... Taxation should be definitely implemented but along actions to prevent these companies to monopolize everything
Remember folks, Jeff Bezos is a self made man, I mean who here couldn't also borrow half a million dollars from their parents to start a business.
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Nothing will change just don't consume be frugal work less get more balance and ignore gvt media newspapers .look after only family and friends
An aside, coming from Dijsselbloem country :) If combined small bookstores are to compete with Amazon, they need to publish pages from their books for free. I only use Amazon for getting a feel of the books I then purchase at my local store... Apart from this: I have read -- and will reread -- Yanis's "Another Now", packed with insights & vistas. And soon I will join Diem25 and/or Progressive International.
I have seen Amazon workers delivering parcels for low wages, and using their own cars
This world is a shame.
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Dr. Sam Vaknin has a really interesting interview with Richard Grannon explaining how we are in a culture of hyper feudalism....
It's a fascinating talk, as are all the interviews with Dr. Vaknin....
He does regular interviews, you should REALLY have him on!
All those that govern, are there to suppress. Let us unite and Rise to create a bright future. Thank you Yanis.
Good idea
Open your own Online shop like Amazon
Hi from Sydney/Australia
Danke
If you plug it, plug it properly!! Put the link in the description... I want to buy the book!!!!
As Celeste implies, conversations are liberating, they enrich free thinking. The problem for all of us is lurking in the socialisation of conversations as they become related to any systemic - logical - description, eh voilà, the social inéluctably fragments into tribes. Thus we need polymaths, like Yanis, but our universities produce specialists. That has to change.
Authoritarianism with a friendly smile.
Humanity needs to have a serious discussion about tyranny vs liberty and why both are messy but liberty is far better
Everything you say is true and should be obvious and yet it still needs to be said especially by one who can elucidate these truths so beautifully.
I follow a UA-cam channel called Recycled Life. They did a Christmas special highlighting local artists and internet shop owners. If we all started doing supporting these kinds of things a movement begins. Amazon becomes a last resort for goods.
Hello sir?apart from imposition uniform of digital taxation what other taxation to be imposed on fang accompanies?but how one should the countries do it sir?
And yet no support from the UK Labour Parliamentary Party. I do not see them on the list of signatories.
Yanis, the big issues I have with your proposal is the same I have with capitalism as well. Everything revolves around work and democratization of work. Why must we be (as one question was proposed) workers or consumers? We are on the verge fully automated everything. To the point where we won’t need to work as employees for corporations. People are so much more than just mindless employees and the path to true freedom is demonetization of everything. I know people would consume at will if everything was free but just like when billionaires have everything they could ever want or at least the ability to, some switch to philanthropy. I believe most people would do as such.
Anyone know the name of that non-amazon online bookstore? Thanks :)
However, Amazon aided by big tech has enabled people to eat and shop during this pandemic by enlarging his delivery staff and delivering everything without increasing prices. Look at other companies, like Trader Joe's, who did not nothing to help consumers -- not even senior citizens. They kept their costs down and pocketed greater profits. I am grateful to Amazon!!!
Whenever a communities livelihood and necessities become dependent on a service or business, that service or business should become public. Just like a road is public, Amazon should be public because it now has become a necessity and without it would cause a crisis. Amazon is a private enterprise but its customers are wholly dependent on it. This is the criteria. Private businesses should only be allowed to be private if their absence doesn't cripple a community.
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Another Now is a great book! He reads from it
Is it possible to have a rough idea of the effect cause by the campaign against Amazon? Thank you. By the way, I did respond to the call and I also invited my friends and family members to do the same.
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I have a question regarding funding after having read this lovely book. How does funding work when commercial banking and share markets are banned?
In the book you say that this occurs by employees that are encouraged to loan money to their/or other companies. But how is that different from commercial banking? Is it simply a question of scale, and if so, what stops small people from making a living and in the long run a business out of loaning money to companies? - > that eventually leading to the reoccurrence of commercial banking.
If anyone has any insight or answer to this, I would be very glad. It's something I've been wondering about for a long time.
Thanks for a lovely read as always Yanis.
I have something in common with Mr Giannis, I have the same Banksy book top left-hand corner - yeah!!! Love the Google human rights proposition clause
I think it might see a bigger distribution of the sci-fi novel if an illustrated version is also made. Kind of like Red Rosa.
Blade Runner is one of my favorite Sci-Fi films, but lately , I'm thinking about Alien! We need Ripley!
Fighting Amazon is just treating the symptom, not addressing the cause. They are cheap and efficient and also 100% legal. They are cheap because much of the cost is externalised and the people pick up the tab - eg. they use our infrastructure and pay no tax. Our governments are unwilling to address this issue seriously, that is the problem.
Hello from Toronto. It's worse than feudalism -
YANIS BRILLIANT
At LAST A Blueprint
I know what you mean, and agree. A plan is needed, to be sure; however, the term blueprint conjures op a state of things; this is about processes.
Amazon does not pay zero taxes. It pays negative taxes, which means that you pay it for simply existing when it files its taxes.
speaking mainly about the modern ebony traffickers... They even don't need the Kafala system in the Golf states to enslave their workers
V for Varoufakis ! Viva
PREDITORY CAPITAL is more authoritative than anything previous.
you mentioned that corporations such as Amazon should have their revenue taxed at about 5%.I totally agree with corporations having to pay tax but ultimately, I believe that this financial burden (tax) would be passed on to the consumer so in the end, it would be the consumer paying the corporate tax and not the corporation itself. ie: Amazon and the like.
What is the alternative to Amazon: Ebay? Will someone help me out here.
The world is full of online retailers. Even my local (150 year old) bookstore has an online presence.
It just takes a little searching time to find what you want.
go on amazon, find what you are looking for, note the seller, look the seller up independently and buy from them directly.
Rent strike?
Coupled with a mortgage strike?
Thank you Sir Yanis for the great talk & book. My group is convinced that the old world systems are falling apart as they must, to make way for brand new, much better, humane systems - by and for the people. Believe it or not, the future is so bright that new words will have to be invented to describe the wonderful new situation we will soon find ourselves in. The timing of all that is up to the people... Power to the people! Those in power want us to be pessimistic & hopeless. It really helps to look on the bright side.
"Whatever happens in the US during the 2020s... the US will, at best, be a cooperating partner... It is far too wounded & divided... confused & misdirected - to provide global leadership.... " Jeffrey Sachs
What are your opinions regarding the World Economic Forum and thier great reset? I haven't heard you speak about this.
If I may, two reasons: 1. More of the same, just a reset and back to the same exploitation system. 2. There will never be a reset for us, they will just use it to 'take us thirsty over the river'. They will manipulate a popular idea to hide more exploitation, like with what they did with the gas-tax that started the yellow-west protests!
What do you mean Amazon pays zero corporation tax? On channel 4 (UK) they say "tax bill fell from £7.4m to £4.6m".
In the US. Their largest market.
@@ammanite ok thanks. That's mental....
It’s worth saying journalists in the Washington Post are not allowed question Bezos, so not truly free and independent
Have you ever questioned the person paying your wages and tell them that they are wrong? In breaking news water is wet!
1:00 Oh, so a complete failure of the whole system then? Think the rot associated with oil spills might have something to do with that. If only all the gas stations were fire proof electric, or if were some kinds of hybrids, then they might’ve had more foresight. Myself I concentrate on the quality of the soil, along with the food supply that follows. So the difference between a dustbowl of crops, monocultures of crops, to a permanent polycultures. Geoff Lawton, www.permaculturenews.org, or something along those lines, Rob Greenfield of Florida is one of the best examples I’ve happened to pass. Wholeheartedly, all the best.
Another revolt now