2024-07-21
37 分钟Today we talk about the concept of Technofeudalism as described by Yanis Varoufakis. We talk about the comparisons of our world to the feudal system, the origins in the economic policy of 2008, and a few potential paths forward centered around important questions to be revisiting. Hope you enjoy it! :) Sponsors: LMNT: https://www.DrinkLMNT.com/philo Better Help: https://www.BetterHelp.com/PHILTHIS Rocket Money: http://www.RocketMoney.com/PT Thank you so much for listening! Could never do this without your help. Website: https://www.philosophizethis.org/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/philosophizethis Social: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/philosophizethispodcast X: https://twitter.com/iamstephenwest Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/philosophizethisshow
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I'm Stephen west.
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So we've been talking a lot lately about some of the problems we're dealing with in the modern world.
The ways that different philosophers are diagnosing what they think the problems are, the ways they think we could be moving beyond them.
And one of the culprits of all these problems, a name that keeps coming up in these conversations, is our good old friend doctor Benjamin J.
Capitalism.
These philosophers just can't seem to get that name out of their mouth.
They can't stop bringing up the fact that the problems we're dealing with might have something to do with the economic, political, religious organization of people's lives that we often just politely call capitalism.
As complex of a thing as that's proven to be, sometimes seems like it may be something more than that at other times.
But one perspective that hasn't been covered yet that seems very necessary to be mentioned as part of these conversations is what if we aren't even living in a capitalist system anymore?
What if we're focused on the wrong things because of that?
Or as it was put by the philosopher economist Yanis Verifakis recently, we know things have changed when it comes to technology and the economy in the last couple decades.
But what if things have transformed so much that if you look around you and you pay attention to the way politics and the economy is actually structured, capitalism is dead.
It's been dead.
And what is actually going on is we've entered into a brand new age that's structured entirely different than before, an age of what he calls techno freedom feudalism.
I mean, if that were true, then again, it just needs to be said.
Seems like something that's necessary to talk about here.
We know the world's always changing into something new.