Technofeudalism

Technofeudalism (2024) argues that capitalism is on its last legs. The twin pillars of that system, profit and markets, no longer govern our economies. Instead, we live in a brave new world dominated by Big Tech’s ability to monopolize attention, modify behavior, and extract rents from old-fashioned capitalists. 

• Economists and historians
• Futurologists
• Big Tech skeptics 

Yanis Varoufakis is a Greek economist, writer, and politician. He is a professor of economics at the University of Athens and was Greece’s finance minister in 2015 during the country’s debt crisis. He is the author of several international bestselling books, including Adults in the Room, a memoir of his time in government. Varoufakis is the co-founder of DiEM25, an international grassroots movement that campaigns for the revival of democracy in Europe.