An alternative to current capitalism would be a system where you join a corporation and receive one share granting one vote, allowing participation in decision-making and borrowing of resources (like a library card), and when you leave you hand back your share and take out your capital, creating competition between worker-owned companies with no distinction between profits and wages

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Speaker

Yanis Varoufakis

Evidence Quote

you join a corporation and you get one share...that one share gives you one vote...when you leave you take your capital out and you have to hand over your library card [28:36]

Source

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

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