Quotes from Yanis Varoufakis’ Talking to My Daughter: A Brief History of Capitalism:

Every employer’s dream, after all, is not a society in which no one needs work, profit is meaningless and each enjoys equally a commonwealth serviced by machines designed and directed by other machines. Their dream is having replaced all their workers with androids but no one else having done the same, allowing them to accumulate the profit and power unavailable to their competitors…

– Yanis Varoufakis, Talking to My Daughter: A Brief History of Capitalism

Debt, as Doctor Faustus shows us, is to market societies what hell is to Christianity: unpleasant yet indispensable.

– Yanis Varoufakis, Talking to My Daughter: A Brief History of Capitalism

The worst slavery is that of heavily indoctrinated happy morons who adore their chains and cannot wait to thank their masters for the joy of their subservience.

– Yanis Varoufakis, Talking to My Daughter: A Brief History of Capitalism