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This is a weird take. Just because someone is (or has been) successful he can't speak about or for socialism?
You can't be successful and a socialist? Is that it? That's a very narrow and simply wrong view which has resulted in a lot of damage in societies which adopted it.
Socialism needs succes stories. Otherwise, what's the point? Mediocrity for all? That will never fly or become popular.
He was also the financial advisor of sorts at Valve, the company that takes a 30% of all their pc game sales.
20% after the initial $50 million. The same company that has used that revenue to revolutionize Linux as a gaming platform. Same company that helped fix graphics api integrations. Same company that actually cares about their consumers and the gaming ecosystem?
Pretty sure all those things happened after Yanis left, so I don't think it's fair to contribute those changes to him.
So you can only critique capitalism if you're unsuccessful? That doesn't make any sense.
Sure you can. It's just that it comes across a whole lot less hypocritical coming from someone who hasn't first exploited that system themselves.
Which country doesn't engage in that economic arrangement?
You admit then that there is nowhere else in Europe for Yanis to have not participated in capitalism, unless he somehow miraculously managed to stop the dissolution of Russia and it's friends in the 90s.
I'm championing nobody, I'm questioning your silly trumptard-tier statement that Yanis is successful because of capitalism. What on earth does that even mean? You can't level a charge of hypocrisy there when we all live in that system. Which was why I asked you which country doesn't engage with capitalism.
Guy is either delusional or a troll. Either way, too many terminally online morons on the Internet to tell