Munk Debate on Capitalism ft. Arthur Brooks, David Brooks, Yanis Varoufakis, Katrina vanden Heuvel

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• SM

  @smerdyakovkb9782 · 6 years ago (edited)

  Yanis and three children. Why don't they have any other experts?

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• MU

  @Music7Virus · 6 years ago

  Anyone watching this debate during the COVID crisis? All of the "we have rising x,y,z" arguments are flushed out by a virus.

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• KK

  @kkay3784 · 6 years ago (edited)

  What the Brooks side entertained is obsolete in Greece today. Yanis is like a Bill and Ted, though coming from a future embodying far greater intelligence and understanding. My enthusiasm for Yanis's perspectives are such that I am planning to shave my head and pop on a black suit. He speaks for my experience of work and the observable erosion of my home town and my country. I watch this debate post COVID outbreak. Yanis's speeches are even more relevant, and the affordability question is even more inane. Inane. No word better captures our time. I hope we can make it through. I don't understand the final vote at all. I wonder how much different it would be were a similar debate held today.

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• PE

  @pegalle1 · 6 years ago

  Yanis 👏👏👍👍.

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• NI

  @nikfaizal97 · 6 years ago (edited)

  I think it would have been more appropriate <i>and</i> effective if it was Prof. Richard D. Wolff who debated alongside Yanis. He would have made a far more convincing case on post-capitalist projects than a * <i>shivers</i> * Elizabeth Warren stan.

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• VL

  @Vlasko60 · 3 years ago

  I agree with all four of them.

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• DA

  @davidclark9143 · 6 years ago

  I will also say this debate took place before the pandemic.

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• GA

  @gamerknown · 4 years ago

  &quot;the entire economy takes a hit at once&quot; lol, how prescient

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• AD

  @adorationOfTheHaggi · 1 year ago

  5 years later, Varoufakis&apos; arguments are utterly prescient.

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• LE

  @leeanderson5955 · 2 years ago

  This debate was four years ago, I’d like to see it happen again considering today’s conditions. To cut through the inherent false premises of these positions, capitalism has devolved into predatory and parasitic capitalism. We need a system that rewards ambition and risk but should not be a winner-take-all system. We need to develop, or recalibrate capitalism into cooperative capitalism.

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• KR

  @Krafterr4 · 6 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juOd73HDSeE&amp;t=1964">32:44</a> - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juOd73HDSeE&amp;t=1984">33:04</a> full cut of footage and audio. This debate was so much better than anticipated.

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• BA

  @BannedFromYT-s1t · 1 year ago

  2 leftists, a liberal and a “conservative” who believes in climate change and the welfare state. Who set this up? The Clinton foundation?

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