Yanis Varoufakis

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1,142 appearances 3 recordings 2 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 3 May

Yanis Varoufakis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar · 1/13/26: Yanis Varoufakis On Trump, Venezuela, The Fed & MORE! · 13 Jan 2026 podcast

And, you know, I talk to other people who are...

Similarly deepfake like John Mishheimer from Chicago University and my great friend Jeff Sachs from Columbia University.

And we are in the same boat.

Do I spend the rest of my life litigating against big tech?

I mean, I don't have the resources.

I certainly don't have the time.

I'm getting on in life.

I'm not going to waste five years of my life doing that.

Would I win?

No.

Would I remain solvent before the court case finished?

So it's one of the situations where you realize that supposedly here in the liberal West, we have rights.

We have no rights.

We do not even own our own audiovisual image.

Well, I'm aghast at how such a very smart, clearly competent businessman has such a low level of understanding of what capitalism or what I call techno-feudalism is like.

Now, of course, look, AI technology is brilliant.

I mean, think about it.

You know, you ask Chad GBT to take some rubbish you've written and put it in Shakespearean language and does it fantastically.

You know, having translations.

I love technology.

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