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Oct 28
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Brazil's class war victory & AI's silent...

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In this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau dissect the political fallouts in Brazil and Serbia to debunk the prevailing narrative that the rise of the Right is an inevitable force that can only be mitigated by centrist technocracy, while revealing the looming threat of a silent AI-driven hiring freeze that risks permanently locking young workers out of the economy.

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