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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In a sense, you know, this is not new because you go back two, three centuries ago, you know, James Watt, the inventor of the steam engine, was neither responsible nor understood the effect that it would have on transforming society from feudalism to capitalism.
What these people are lacking is a theory of change, of transition.
Because, you know, ideally, ideally, I would agree.
You know, I'm a Trekkie, right?
I mean, I have misspent my youth and my older age watching a lot of Star Trek.
And
I love Star Trek because it is the best example of libertarian communism.
Think about it.
Nobody works because you have replicators doing all the work.
So, you know, you order food, clothes, even spaceships of replicators and machines convert energy and mass into whatever it is that you order.
So there's no point in having an economy.
Everything is produced for you.
And, you know, what they do is they spend time in a spaceship exploring the universe, having philosophical conversations.
That's why I'm a Trekkie.
I love it.
The question is, okay, now let's say that we buy the hypothesis that at some point we will have the technology to replace all labor, all work, all, you know.
All chores, let's say, because, you know, nobody wants to replace the labor of love that is writing poetry or composing music.
But, you know, all the chores that people would rather not do, but somebody needs to do them.
Let's say that robots do all that.
Okay.
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