Capitalism's prerequisites for functioning (baker, brewer, butcher able to operate on shared moral sentiments) are destroyed by economies of scale and scope that came with the second industrial revolution and digital revolution, eliminating both the moral foundations and the ability of small businesses to survive

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Speaker

Yanis Varoufakis

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economies of scale and scope destroy both the moral bed on which the baker the brew and the butcher can operate...they are taken over by starbucks [1:05:18]

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Can we Fix Capitalism? Yanis Varoufakis vs Gillian TettIntelligence Squared
Created: 8/12/2026, 10:33:04 PM

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