You may remember Mr. Varoufakis as the former finance minister of Greece, but I will always remember him as the economist Valve had on retainer which makes all of his geopolitical opinions infinitely funnier than they already are - ThreadSky

abeardedpanda.bsky.social • 2 days ago

You may remember Mr. Varoufakis as the former finance minister of Greece, but I will always remember him as the economist Valve had on retainer which makes all of his geopolitical opinions infinitely funnier than they already are

Reposted from Yanis Varoufakis

Germans can no longer sell cars. So, they will build tanks. But tanks last for decades and consumers don't buy them anyway. That's why Military Keynesianism doesn't work, unless you start one war after the other US-style. Ergo, only fools welcome German Military Keynesianism.

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joshuaaslan.bsky.social•2 days ago

I remember when he was EVE Online's on staff economist and was posting like this

https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2014/01/30/war-spikes-in-the-eve-online-universe-a-political-economists-account/

robbinsa.me•2 days ago

yanis "bringer of hats" varoufakis

robbinsa.me•2 days ago

what i want to know is if he saw the earbuds-as-unit-of-currency coming

josephpolitano.bsky.social•2 days ago

Being Greek and getting negatively polarized against increased German fiscal spending, boy I dunno

militantnerd.bsky.social•2 days ago

"I will drop you like Greece's GDP" will forever be one of the hardest lines ever.

brianromanchuk.bsky.social•2 days ago

Not surprising for a tankie.

militantnerd.bsky.social•2 days ago

I mean, Gaben and Valve can't be ALL good.

vjy1.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yannis was supremely unsuccessful in making the case for Greece - at the time it was clear he was more interested in posing than in getting something done.

nato-enthusiast.bsky.social•2 days ago

Given that we're the only ones on the continent that can build a good tank at scale, I'm not concerned about demand being saturated any time soon

buckrawheat.bsky.social•2 days ago

Trying to bring hat based economies to the Greeks

oldhoundderby.bsky.social•2 days ago

Also, tanks don’t last for ever, particularly if you need to use them. Just ask Russia who’ve lost 10,000+ according to the Ukrainians (even if the numbers are inflated, 5000 tanks lost would still be insane!).

inkro.bsky.social•2 days ago

The Greek crisis absolutely cooked his brain

shahidkhan.bsky.social•2 days ago

Many of us remember him as the husband of the woman who inspired Common People by Pulp

abeardedpanda.bsky.social•2 days ago

He has stupid opinions about geopolitics but he's also responsible for the Steam marketplace and you know which of those is worse

salthegeek.bsky.social•2 days ago

Kinda also blame him for Valve for basically abandoning game dev and becoming a storefront who buys out actual devs. (I'm still upset that they cancelled the firewatch devs next game)

ianbobmorris.bsky.social•2 days ago

i remember that and it is funny

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