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How dare people use their privilege for good instead of for self-enrichment!
by saubeidl 11mo ago
How dare people use their privilege for good instead of for self-enrichment!
- nephihaha 11mo agoHe is a World Economic Forum stooge, mate. There are only two ways into that. You either pay hundreds of thousands to attend each day, or you get invited from the inside as he did. The WEF includes the top 100 companies in the world, along with the leaders and opposition leaders of every country. He's part of it. https://www.weforum.org/stories/authors/yanis-varoufakis/ https://www.weforum.org/stories/authors/yanis-varoufakis/
- saubeidl 11mo agoYou seem to be on some sort of vendetta against the messenger instead of addressing the message at all.
- nephihaha 11mo agoWe have heard plenty from this particular messenger. He is/was never off the BBC at some stage. I always ask why someone is pushed on the public so hard, whether it is him or even someone like Jordan Peterson. I have the same basic issue with him as I do with the Guardian... He is completely out of touch with what is happening at ground level because of his current life and his origins.
- danaris 11mo agoI'm with saubeidl—while I, too, am deeply suspicious of anyone who comes from that level of privilege, and I've heard some shady stuff about Varoufakis in the past, you are refusing to present a) any meaningful criticism of his actual arguments, or b) any specific causal link between aspects of his background and reasons to doubt his work. You just keep pounding on the fact that he is from privilege, but that alone is not enough to be suspicious. At the very best, you are arguing guilt by association.
- nephihaha 11mo agoGuilt by association? Yes, he's associated with the WEF, a group of elite politicians and wealthy tycoons who meet away from the prying eyes of the public to discuss policies, and then tells us he's on our side. They say you can know someone by the company they keep. The company he keeps are the Cambridge University students (who come disproportionately from private schools), mainstream media pundits and the billionaires of the WEF. He doesn't just come from privilege... He never really left it.
- danaris 11mo agoBut one can come from privilege, and choose to use that privilege to, effectively, infiltrate the ranks of the moneyed elite, seeking to make things better for the average person. Some people have claimed that this is what he is doing. You have provided zero evidence that it is not. You merely keep repeating the same statements about his origins and his affiliation with the WEF. I am not saying you are wrong. I am saying you have not supported your position in any meaningful way. What are his words? What are his actions? Where is the harm? Where is the evidence?