Yanis Varoufakis: And The Weak Suffer What They Must?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 เม.ย. 2016
- The crisis in Europe is not over, it's getting worse. In this dramatic narrative of Europe’s economic rise and spectacular fall, Yanis Varoufakis, former finance minister of Greece, ‘the emerging rock star of Europe’s anti-austerity uprising’ (Telegraph), shows that the origins of the collapse go far deeper than our leaders are prepared to admit - and that we have done nothing so far to fix them.
In 2008, the universe of Western finance outgrew planet Earth. When Wall Street imploded, a death embrace between insolvent banks and bankrupt states consumed Europe. Half a dozen national economies imploded and several more came close. But the storm is far from over…
From the aftermath of the Second World War to the present, Varoufakis recounts how the eurozone emerged not as route to shared prosperity but as a pyramid scheme of debt with countries such as Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain at its bottom. Its woeful design ensured that collapse would be inevitable and catastrophic. But since the hurricane landed Europe’s leaders have chosen a cocktail of more debt and harsh austerity rather than reform, ensuring that the weakest citizens of the weakest nations pay the price for the bankers’ mistakes, while doing nothing to prevent the next collapse. Instead, the principle of the greatest austerity for those suffering the greatest recessions has led to a resurgence of racist extremism. Once more, Europe is a potent threat to global stability.
Drawing on the personal experience of his own negotiations with the eurozone’s financiers and offering concrete policies and alternatives, Varoufakis shows how we concocted this mess and how we can get out of it. And The Weak Suffer What They Must? reminds us of our history in order to save European capitalism from itself.
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What a true Greek patriot. He tried to bring change when everyone was against him. Even his own party betrayed him. That’s the destiny of great minds…
Yanis, the Greeks that question what the media tells them, truly appreciate and respect you.
This is Yanis! In Love with the Truth and Logic...That's his fetish. His Brain can not compute if he doesn't say the Truth. Can not Work!
Brilliant! ✊
Varoufakis is a genius.........unfortunately we have that bloody german Schaeuble on the wheel of the European economy who enforces brutal austerity and the whole Europe is dragging with hugh unemployment
+Alkomp75 The guy is indeed brilliant - it's amazing how many haters are out there though. He did his best and is still doing his best to bring light to what the banksters are doing together with crooked politicians.
The haters are reading the german yellow papers....I once was talking to a German idiot and he hadn't heard of the SIEMENS scandal
+Alkomp75 Siemens scandal has nothing to do with Varufakis............
+Eusunt Dac Not the crooked and corrupt Greek politicians though???????
+Alkomp75 It's not so simple. Schauble isn't the horror you paint, but he is playing politics with much larger forces and is part of the machine that is destroying Europe.
416BC: The Athenians offer the Melians an ultimatum: surrender and pay tribute
to Athens, or be destroyed. The Athenians do not wish to argue over the
morality of the situation, because in practice might makes right (or, in
their own words, "the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what
they must")
All those "borrowings" to Greece should be written-off.
He's made the Christine Lagarde joke before and it's getting a bit tiresome now. Who knows if it's true or not and since it is about a supposedly private conversation made during high level talks on international finance the lady involved wil rightly never be able to confirm or deny it. There is a name for such treachery !
I think unintentionally he makes the case for Brexit. Of course there will be serious consequences but as Hamlet told his mother sometimes you have to be cruel in order to be kind. If the conflagration that follows teaches the world to live within it's means instead of relying on handouts and endless credit then something real and basic will have been achieved !
Well, she IS able to confirm or deny it publicly.
Varoufakis has kept record of those private conversations and no one denies that.Not Ms. Lagarde has denied that and not anyone else. So treachery...?
If you are yourself tired of him and/or his jokes, you can skip Varoufakis and look for a person who tells you what you want to hear for as many times as you like.
Greece never before relied on handouts or even intended to, we ( well, the politicians ) were forced to take loans and their bad terms made them endless in turn, because they were indeed unsustainable.
The people in Greece denied the loans, our corrupt politicians are screwing us over and over.
So before expressing ourselves for the mentality, the ignorance or the purposes of a whole nation on trying to rely on anything, you had better first check out for real history and avoid the media's conclusions or at least try to show some respect on what we Greeks are going through over the last years and for the years to come..
As far as your Brexit assumption, well no -he never wanted the UK to Brexit - you are already in the EU and trying to get out of it. This is a whole different scenario.
He actually makes the case that it would be a bad decision for any nation to try to enter the EU, as we know it now.
So let's hope that the Brexit gives us a good lesson too.. I keep my fingers crossed and I hope that it all ends up well for you.
For us it hasn't, but on top of that we have to put up with all the insults, as if this hell is already not enough.
Yanis for US president!!!! hahaha
Americans get what they want, sorry comrade ;-)
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