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Has the digital economy killed capitalism?

8 mins | Nov 5, 2023
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Economist Yanis Varoufakis explores how the digital economy has transformed capitalism, raising questions about its future and the need for a new economic model. In this opinion piece, he argues that - rather than turbo-charging the free market - Amazon and others have brought back a kind of feudalism. Read by Michael Bott.

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