The chatty style (tourist journalism?) of the article detracts from the proposition that readers want to understand. FTFA: "We’re now in servitude, Varoufakis

The chatty style (tourist journalism?) of the article detracts from the proposition that readers want to understand. FTFA: "We’re now in servitude, Varoufakis argues, to the fiefdoms of our new global masters, Lord Zuckerberg of Facelandia and Sir Musk of the rotten borough of X." tl;dr The working people live as interest serfs in an economy that has become impossible to afford for many. Meanwhile, enormously wealthy people have unchecked power over politics, technology, and public policy. These wealthy people can alter the workforce and fund movements according to their unrestrained and unscrupulous caprices. Public policy in the US is in tatters (and is under heavy strain elsewhere), affordable lodging is a quaint hypothesis, and the current middle class cohort (i.e. anyone with what used to be a good salary) is trying to characterise its debt despair as temporary embarrassment.