He was also the financial advisor of sorts at Valve, the company that takes a 30% of all their pc game sales.
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.
admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 9 months ago
Torvum@lemmy.world 9 months ago
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?
admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 9 months ago
Pretty sure all those things happened after Yanis left, so I don’t think it’s fair to contribute those changes to him.
doomer@lemmy.world 9 months ago
He’s had a very visible career so it’s actually pretty clear what his views are. He is not at all a socialist, he is a SocDem. He likes neoliberalism with some safety nets.
the_q@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The problem is he doesn’t walk the walk. His success comes from capitalism. He’s very well off because of capitalism.
ReadyUser31@lemmy.world 9 months ago
So you can only critique capitalism if you’re unsuccessful? That doesn’t make any sense.
admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 9 months ago
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.
the_q@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Why would someone talk about the pitfalls of a system while benefiting from that system?
ReadyUser31@lemmy.world 9 months ago
HaggierRapscallier@feddit.nl 9 months ago
Which country doesn’t engage in that economic arrangement?
the_q@lemmy.world 9 months ago
By choice or by circumstance? The rich profit from capitalism therefore they use their wealth to maintain the system that is benefiting them the most. The poor have to participate in varying degrees just to survive.
You think people choose to bust their asses for $8/hr?
HaggierRapscallier@feddit.nl 9 months ago
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.