Yanis Varoufakis: Another Now
English language
An enjoyable detailed modern vision of a tech-supported financial utopia.
Kinda depressing though - if that's the systemic change we need to save ourselves then it's safe to say humanity is finished.
As a sci-fi book, this one is certainly lacking.
But in sketching a post-capitalist world it is really astounding.
It's hard to wrap your head around how the world could function without capitalism, but Yanis explains in (sometimes to much) detail how it can function. And what a glorious world it can be.
After reading "Talking to my daughter" I expected another non-fiction book. Big surprise, Yanis Varoufakis wrote a science fiction novel that plays in the near future. The plot is, that the protagonist Costa who is a scientist managed to create a wormhole into a parallel universe. This "other now" diverted from our branch of reality after the global financial crisis of 2008. People in "our now" have counterparts in the "other now" and they can exchange messages on how the parallel universe evolved after the crisis.
It turns out that they have learned their lessons after the big headache and changed direction so that they abandonded capitalism and all the greed coming from it. Yes, they had also incidentes where people fell for the temptation of getting rich fast, but they even overcame this.
Yanis Varoufakis wrote an interesting metaphor about what could be if we would focus on other …
After reading "Talking to my daughter" I expected another non-fiction book. Big surprise, Yanis Varoufakis wrote a science fiction novel that plays in the near future. The plot is, that the protagonist Costa who is a scientist managed to create a wormhole into a parallel universe. This "other now" diverted from our branch of reality after the global financial crisis of 2008. People in "our now" have counterparts in the "other now" and they can exchange messages on how the parallel universe evolved after the crisis.
It turns out that they have learned their lessons after the big headache and changed direction so that they abandonded capitalism and all the greed coming from it. Yes, they had also incidentes where people fell for the temptation of getting rich fast, but they even overcame this.
Yanis Varoufakis wrote an interesting metaphor about what could be if we would focus on other things than just money and greed. The book shows a wide spectrum of ideas, has references to the global pandemic, references to the Star Trek universe where people strive to improve and yes, there is even a section about sex. The other characters in the book, Iris, Eva and Thomas have interesting discussions about the future of economy where they have diverse positions.
An interesting read, even if the start and the end is a bit confusing.
