【独立报】前希腊财政部长瓦鲁法基斯称资本主义正迎来终结 [英国媒体]

Former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis has claimed capitalism is coming to an end because it is making itself obsolete.  

前希腊财政部长瓦尼斯.瓦鲁法基斯声称资本主义因为自身的原因正迎来终结。

The former economics professor told an audience at University College London that the rise of giant technology corporations and artificial intelligence will cause the current economic system to undermine itself. 

这位前伦敦大学经济学教授告诉我们，科技巨头公司以及人工智能的兴起将导致如今的经济系统自我终结。

Mr Varoufakis, who took on EU institutions over Greek debt repayments in 2015, said companies such as Google and Facebook, for the first time ever, are having their capital bought and produced by consumers.  

瓦鲁法基斯在2015年接管了偿还希腊债务的欧盟机构，他说像Google和Facebook等公司有史以来第一次出现了生产者消费者都出在消费者身上的情况。

“Firstly the technologies were funded by some government grant; secondly every time you search for something on Google, you contribute to Google’s capital,” he said. “And who gets the returns from capital? Google, not you.

“首先，这些技术是由政府资助的;其次，每次在Google上搜索内容时，都可视为对Google的捐助行为”，他说： “所以谁获得了资本回报？ 是Google，不是你。”

“So now there is no doubt capital is being socially produced, and the returns are being privatised. This with artificial intelligence is going to be the end of capitalism.”

“所以现在资本无疑可以由社会生产，而且收益却进了私人的腰包。这种技术与人工智能将使资本主义时代迎来终结。“

new technology is going to destroy a lot more jobs than it creates.

新技术将会摧毁大量的工作岗位而只带来少量的工作机会。
He added: “Capitalism is going to undermine capitalism, because they are producing all these technologies that will make corporations and the private means of production obsolete.

他补充说：“资本主义将自毁，因为它们正在产出的技术会淘汰如今的公司生产和私人生产方式。

“And then what happens? I have no idea.”

“在那之后还会发生什么？我不知道。”

Describing the present economic situation as "unsustainable" and fearing the rise of "toxic nationalism", Mr Varoufakis said governments needed to prepare for post-capitalism by introducing redistributive wealth policies. 

瓦劳法基斯先生说，目前的经济形势是“不可持续的”，并担心“毒害的民族主义”的兴起，政府需要准备一个财富再分配方案以适应后资本主义的到来。

He suggested one effective policy would be for 10 per cent of all future issue of shares to be put into a "common welfare fund" owned by the people. Out of this a "universal basic dividend" could be paid to every citizen. 

他提出的一项可能奏效的政策是将未来所有股份的10％投入“人民福利基金”。这个资金的红利就成了向每个公民支付的“基本红利”。

Mr Varoufakis came to prominence during the Greek sovereign debt crisis when he led Greece’s negotiating team seeking a resolution with its international creditors.

瓦鲁法基斯在希腊主权债务危机期间表现突出，他领导希腊谈判小组与债权国之间寻求解决方案。

Describing the event as a “complete failure” on his part, he resigned as finance minister in 2015 after Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras agreed to the terms of the EU’s debt repayment plan.

不过他本人认为在这件事上的表现为“完全失败”，在希腊总理亚历克西斯·齐普拉斯同意欧盟债务偿还计划的条件后，于2015年辞去财政部长职务。