Yanis Varoufakis on Post-Capitalism: Another Now (PT2) - Housing, Tax, Inequality, Worker Co-ops
Channel: After The Oligarchy (Bright Age Beyond)
Date: 2022-03-18

FULL CAPTIONS. 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.

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- Another Now Model Summary: https://youtu.be/sNfvR0lwP4Q
- Interview Part 1: https://youtu.be/O_n9j0PFVy4

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⌚ 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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