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Yanis Varoufakis on Post-Capitalism: Another Now (PT2) – Housing, Tax, Inequality, Worker Co-ops

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FULL ENGLISH SUBTITLES. Second interview with Yanis Varoufakis about the model of post-capitalism in his book Another Now (2020). In association with Meta: Centre for Post-Capitalist Civilisation. Discussion includes housing, land, rent, income and wealth inequality, inheritance, taxation, class division, exploitation, finance, depreciating money, enterprise size, monopoly/oligopoly, workplace management, worker cooperatives. Part 3 to come. ==== After The Oligarchy ==== - Blog: https://aftertheoligarchy.wordpress.com - Twitter: https://twitter.com/AfterOligarchy - Another Now Model Summary: https://youtu.be/sNfvR0lwP4Q - Interview Part 1: https://youtu.be/O_n9j0PFVy4 == meta: the Centre for Postcapitalist Civilisation == https://metacpc.org/en/ TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Intro 01:07 Q1 -

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FULL ENGLISH SUBTITLES. Second interview with Yanis Varoufakis about the model of post-capitalism in his book Another Now (2020). In association with Meta: Centre for Post-Capitalist Civilisation.



Discussion includes housing, land, rent, income and wealth inequality, inheritance, taxation, class division, exploitation, finance, depreciating money, enterprise size, monopoly/oligopoly, workplace management, worker cooperatives.



Part 3 to come.



==== After The Oligarchy ====

- Blog: https://aftertheoligarchy.wordpress.com

- Twitter: https://twitter.com/AfterOligarchy

- Another Now Model Summary: https://youtu.be/sNfvR0lwP4Q

- Interview Part 1: https://youtu.be/O_n9j0PFVy4



== meta: the Centre for Postcapitalist Civilisation ==

https://metacpc.org/en/



TIMESTAMPS



00:00 Intro

01:07 Q1 - Commercial housing insecurity

04:50 Q2 - No progressive taxation?

10:05 Q3 - How much inequality is acceptable?

12:45 Q4 - Does the market itself create economic polarization?

14:45 Q5 - Inheritance

17:50 Q6 - Time-limited / Depreciating Money

18:55 Q7 - Interest, Wealth, and Class Division

21:05 Q8 - Firm Size

24:20 Q9 - Monopoly / OIigopoly

26:45 Q10 - Workplace Management Structures

29:10 Q11 - Worker Co-op Membership (Disjointedness Criterion)

35:00 Outro



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Yanis Varoufakis
An accidental economist Let me begin with a confession: I am a Professor of Economics who has never really trained as an economist. But let’s take things one at a time.

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