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‘Capitalism is dead. Now we have something much worse’: Yanis Varoufakis on extremism, Starmer, and the tyranny of big tech (www.theguardian.com)

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‘Capitalism is dead. Now we have something much worse’: Yanis Varoufakis on extremism, Starmer, and the tyranny of big tech::In his new book, the maverick Greek economist says we are witnessing an epochal shift. At his island home, he argues it’s now the ‘fiefdoms’ of tech firms that shape us

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[-] admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 4 points 1 year ago

He was also the financial advisor of sorts at Valve, the company that takes a 30% of all their pc game sales.

[-] Torvum@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

20% after the initial $50 million. The same company that has used that revenue to revolutionize Linux as a gaming platform. Same company that helped fix graphics api integrations. Same company that actually cares about their consumers and the gaming ecosystem?

[-] admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure all those things happened after Yanis left, so I don't think it's fair to contribute those changes to him.

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