Yanis Varoufakis
speaker
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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And you click on it.
And then the coffee maker comes to you outside any market.
You don't go to a shop to get it.
It comes.
And Jeff Bezos, who's Alexa, has helped you, let's say, in the rest of the commerce, get that coffee maker.
It gets 40%.
40%.
That 40% is a rent that is taken away.
From the laborers that have actually worked to produce the coffee maker, but even from the surplus value of the capitalist that owns the coffee making company.
So, you know, when we have AI that is empowering further and enhancing the control that this 0.001% have over our minds, over our behavior.
You see, these are machines that don't produce anything.
They are not productive machines.
They're not like industrial robots building cars.
These are machines that determine what we think.
And, you know, in other words, these are machines that the owners can use in order to extract rents, which are a loss of GDP, to go back to what you were saying.
It is a break on growth.
It is a break on societal enhancement.
But, you know, these tech guys...
either don't know any of this because all they want is more of whatever it is that they're after, which is money, shares, whatever.
And they have no idea how their technology is being utilized.
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