What would a fair and equal society actually look like? The world-renowned economist and bestselling author Yanis Varoufakis presents his radical and subversive answer.
Imagine it is 2025. Years earlier, in the wake of the financial crisis of 2008, a global hi-tech uprising has birthed a post-capitalist world in which work, money, land, digital networks and politics have been truly democratised.
In a thought-experiment of startling originality, world-famous economist Yanis Varoufakis offers a glimpse of this alternative reality. Through the eyes of three characters – a libertarian ex-banker, a Marxist-feminist and a maverick technologist – we see the genesis of a world without commercial banks or stock markets, where companies are owned equally by all staff, basic income is guaranteed, global imbalances and climate change cancel each other out, and housing is socialised.
Is a liberal socialism feasible? Can prosperity grow without costing the Earth? Are we able to build the good society, despite our flaws?
As radical in its form as in its vision, Another Now blends Platonic dialogue with speculative fiction to show that there is an alternative to capitalism, while also confronting us with the greatest question: how far are we willing to go to bring it about?
I went to the Adobe Café and Bakery again yesterday then stopped at Jake’s in Reserve for groceries. I also went to the Post Office to see if I had a copay bill from the VA and to ask them about what address I should give vendors when I don’t know what carrier will be used for the shipment. No mail from the VA.
So, when I got back to the park I got my Yubico security key out and gave it a try with my new to me HP laptop. Plugged it in and it worked perfectly using the Brave browser and I didn’t need the USB A To C adapter. I have two working laptops now that both will connect to the VA using the security key so the old System 76 will be retired at a very cheap price if I can find a buyer.
News headline:
Skydiving Plane Crashes in France, Killing All 11 People on Board
My first thought was why didn’t they bail out? The story doesn’t ask or answer that question.
Sounds like an interesting book.
A thought-experiment with speculative fiction is the kind of SiFi that I enjoy.