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Yanis Varoufakis is now writing and warning us about digital feudalism, seemingly based on his learnings at his Valve tenure.

Valve, as a digital feudalist, generates funds, practically for free, from both transactions of items and the lootboxes. It operates the markets on which digital goods are traded, taxes all sales occurring on these platforms.



Oh gee, I'm so glad all these smart people want to tell me about how we shouldn't build the torment nexus...

After they already went and built the torment nexus (and were paid handsomely for it)




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