This man is so honest and brilliant. He is spot on. His ideas are very realistic and doable. The people of the work needs to listen.

10:14 to get to the substance.

I can listen to this man forever.

Thumbs up just for the opening discourse!

I have the most respect for this man! But remember everyone... stay critical! As a countryman of Yanis I have witnessed his political and some of his academics career and I have agreed with most of what he stands for . And that's the reason I have to stay critical about the man . As Christopher Hitchens once said "give a man a reputation as an early riser and he will sleep until noon" , let's not make this mistake with Varoufakis . Let's keep this man as honest as he is now .

@gravenewworld6521

5 жыл бұрын

Hitch said that in a C-span interview... he was quoting Mark Twain...

THANKS----As an expat living in Crete/Greece many years, I sure hope that YV becomes the next Prime Minister and pulls together all the working people of Europe to a green New Deal with the Day25/European Spring movement. It's either that or needless, hopeless slavery. (And while average Germans work 1000 hours per year, Greeks work 1500.)

Brilliant Yanis, once again

he is a very brave person, I bought the book yesterday and will give to my 13 year old daughter

Great first guest question.

Razem! Greetings to all DIEM members

Awesome.

Yanis - the hero.

This is austerity!

1:06:05 COULD YOU PLEASE TELL MY PARTY THIS! WE REALLY NEED TO HEAR IT PUT THIS WAY

Am I in love with Yanis? Yes, yes I am

Democracy in the Americas. I like it.

thanks for the video! very insightful.

Just add a soft 80's - action film - style instrumental running in the back for the full Yanis V experience.

22 people have their monitor flipped upside down.

@will2bartels

5 жыл бұрын

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Glad to hear from the Communist students. I wish I had a group like that at the school I worked at, where all the female workers are currently being harassed out of their jobs because the union is doing zero to help them out. I would like to ask Yanis what he thinks about corrupt unions, of which there are several here in Canada. They literally spend their time on conferences and compiling black lists, and do nothing for workers.

I wonder, how long the greek economy can remain in this state. Everything is sold out, young people leaving the country as fast as they can. Erdogan waiting for the chance to annex cyprus and the nearby islands as soon the european construct collapses, and the official governmental media channels still saying, greece is on a good way.

Talks are just talks, air thru the vocal chords. The negative forces that are trying to shape the world according to their madness will continue to do so unopposed. No amount of talking will save us from the horrors of the future.

Unfortunately Varoufakis was not allowed to explain what he would do now to resolve the Greece economic crisis.

@Economivision

6 жыл бұрын

And that ends his entire argument. He argues for the very things that left Greece destitute. Unfettered spending, over socialization and a sick state bank that propped that actions of politicians in poorly allocating funds to inefficient and unaffordable programs.

@debbiedogs1

6 жыл бұрын

He has done that in some other talks I have seen. One of the main things for the EU would be to allow countries to run an adequate deficit. Apparently, the EU agreement - which global political economist Mark Blyth has said was written 'BY the rich, FOR the rich' had the 'insane clause' (Blyth's words) of not allowing a deficit. Well, it may have been a 3% deficit. However, a country that is not a net EXPORTER needs to run a higher deficit in order to balance the economy, so that clause was intended to make countries fail, it sounds like. I think Yanis has mentioned allowing a 9% deficit?? Something like that. Anyway, those countries should NOT have given up their currency - the UK sure knew better and kept theirs!! So the deal must be made fairer to all.

Morethan the 100 years war, the main line between those who want a tighter, more federal Europe and those who don´t reminds me to the old divide between latinos and germanic, protestants vs catholics/orthodox, the individualism vs the colectivism...it matches even geographically...it may just be me, but it seems like the same cultural scars from all of Europe´s history coming up yet again.

In the 30 years war France was in the protestant side.

very interesting fellow - how did he ever believed and entrusted to serve a civil and political delinquent like Tsipras?

@RoyeReedBenjamin

5 жыл бұрын

Unsurprisingly Tsipras had no allies who were economically literate. Before his party won the election he was consulting with Varoufakis about how to argue with the Europeans about austerity in the event that he did win the election. After listening to Yanis' ideas he asked him to be finance minister.

*Capitalism* in a nutshell*: a lie within a lie within a lie wrapped into a casino.

I, Daniel Blake. That's the movie at kzread.info/dash/bejne/h6uLtLWCiMXWebQ.htmlh1m55s. I, Daniel Blake. Watch it!

@1:02:30 - "I, Daniel Blake"

Wow! that's a BIG sauna! O.O

Nationalize ALL central banks. Eliminate the charge of interest. Operate a world based on capital only.

@Sam-kp2ly

5 жыл бұрын

"Eliminate the charge of interest" - Let's be realistic, if hopeful, please. This kind of utopian sentiment is exactly what's behind leftists hating each other so much.

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@NK-ho9gs

6 жыл бұрын

You live in a beautifull world.

Free, unrestricted migration cannot work. Migration depletes countries of human intellectual capital. I have no problem with migration between similar cultures, as long as the systems are on the same social and economical level. What we have here in Europe is unrestricted migration from religion-based countries, 90% without education on par with ours! Our social and health system is rapidly depleted by those, same goes for our health-system. In cities, the hospital serve today 70-90% non Germans... Only a small percentage is actually productive (paying taxes).

@AnnMarieKing

5 жыл бұрын

Yours is an unfortunate generalisation made about people from the so-called developing world by too many people, and most dangerously by intellectual and political influencers, in the so-called developed world. Much of the overwhelming political and economic refugee migration that underpins these sentiments finds its ethos in the politico-economic avarice and arrogance that is now catching up with the historical and contemporary colonist cum capitalist provocateurs in the developed world. I hold B Comm and MA degrees in Marketing, Strategy and Innovation, one from an ivy league Canadian university which I earned in three years based on the free public education I received in a SIDS (small island developing state) country. I am a professional member of UK's Chartered Institute of Marketing with 20+ years of professional experience, most earned in executive positions. I also happen to be Afro-Caribbean. I believe I could bring value to any country's economy, society and culture but choose to stay and contribute to my homeland. The assumed negative homogeneity of everyone not British or European or American is so very dangerous!

Greetings from a German fan: Dear Yanis, you gave a very interesting talk, but the name of the German poet and scientist was Goethe, not Gäthe. Your mispronunciation made me laugh so that I could not resist and had to write this: To pronounce the long oe or Umlaut ö sound, protrude your lips like in a long oh sound, but raise the blade of your tongue and move it forward. Better yet, ask some German speaker sometime to teach you how to pronounce it. Should be easy for a you as a Greek, except you may have a hard time with the length of the vowel, as Greek seems to have no distinction between long and short or tense and lax vowels.

10 mins of other ppl talking just to introduce him...stop this america....stop it

I feel like he shouldn’t teach his daughter for the safety of future knowledge... a contract with cafeteria.... seriously....

@AntonVilanov

5 жыл бұрын

Wow, you really got into the video, huh.. The cafeteria part was more of an announcement from 2 students towards the audience for in-school problems. Had nothing to do with Varoufakis. How old are you??

I wouldn't brag too much about being the finance minister of Greece. That's like saying, "I was the chief engineer at Chernobyl", or "I designed the Titanic".

@RequiescatInPace

5 жыл бұрын

I don't believe he was bragging....He served in that position to make change/reform. Obviously he was not able to put into effect those policies due to the forces of the establishment in the Eurozone.

@tcritt

5 жыл бұрын

I see a lot of people saying this. Most of them have no idea the circumstances under which Varoufakis became finance minister. It was *after* all the shit went down. He inherited an absolute nightmare.

@AntonVilanov

5 жыл бұрын

You have zero idea on what you are talking about. He was minister for less than 8 months. The end came by way of resignation. And the reason he resigned was precisely because his government didn’t want to follow his recommendations, in fact they turned against him. Furthermore, as timcritt wrote above, he basically inherited the whole thing long after Greece was already a total mess. Don’t spread bs around that you picked up during your intense social media studies.

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I want to debate this guy. I really, really want to debate him. I've seen so many of his videos, and I have zero doubts in my ability to dissect and destroy his misunderstandings of sound economics. He even maligns bitcoin, though I do not perceive it in our lasting future, the block chain technology is very tangible, and I believe to be beyond his ability to really even engage in this discussion. It's absolute ignorance.

@anonymousee716

5 жыл бұрын

debate him here. go point by point. no need for a literal, verbal back-and-forth. if you can destroy his arguments, ideas, facts then do it.

Listen to the way he pulses during a sentence, trying to act intelligent.

This man wants to sell his books is that simple.

@theuglytruth5556

6 жыл бұрын

You think he needs the money from the books?

@mikenowacki9729

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah and we wanna read em .

@homayounshirazi9550

6 жыл бұрын

Νίκος Γκουβάτσος , He has written many. Is that all you got from his hour-long interview? He argues how capitalism has enslaved everyone and has enriched the super-rich. You may want to pay closer attention and listen a second time.

@debbiedogs1

6 жыл бұрын

He wants to INFORM THE PUBLIC so that we can FIGHT BETTER. So do professors of economics who have put up this channel, and who do interviews, presentations, blogs and articles. They want 'we the people' to KNOW and to DEMAND so that we can stop the greedy sociopaths who have been running things for DECADES. kzread.info/dash/bejne/q6Oa0tFxaMzWndI.html

@NK-ho9gs

6 жыл бұрын

You wish . Dont you?

This guy is a perfect Snack-oil Salesman and a failed politition