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I don't think he "went insane". He received threats. He lives in a poor country (and probably violent) and likely doesn't want to raise flags as the guy earning
by darkmighty 13y ago
I don't think he "went insane". He received threats. He lives in a poor country (and probably violent) and likely doesn't want to raise flags as the guy earning 50k a day.
This is just first world people forgetting there are violent and politically delicate countries elsewhere, I guess.
- 1337biz 13y agoThe earnings for 1-2 weeks were enough to get in most western countries on an investor visa.
- TeMPOraL 13y agoLeaving your country is not a simple decision based on money. It means leaving your old life, friends and sometimes family behind. It's understandable he might not even consider this.
- Aldo_MX 13y agoYou are not leaving your country forever, you can always take vacations to visit your family, friends, etc.
- faceponder 13y agoNot everyone in non-Western countries wants to leave...
- pyre 13y agoWhen you fear for your life your decisions may be different than if you didn't.
- akfanta 13y agoAre you suggesting that all non-Western countries civilians are living in fear for their life? This is a new level of ignorance. Even if you just meant Vietnam, believe or not, a lot of things have changed in the last few decades.
- corin_ 13y agoHe's clearly not saying that, but talking about this one specific individual.
- pyre 13y agoMy Point: No. Not everyone in "non-Western countries" wants to move to a "Western country." That being said, someone that may not normally want to relocate to a "Western country" may have a desire to do so if they have significant fear of their life in their own country.
- TeMPOraL 13y agoIt was easier for him to kill a hobby project than to relocate to another country.
- lotsofmangos 13y agoI don't think he really feared for his life, what seems much more likely, especially given his statements about the media, is that he thought that people were being complete dicks, so he took his ball and left.
- rhizome 13y agoWorks for me.
- antirez 13y agoHe has several top games in the app store game section, I believe he had already a lot of money, so not earning more does not stop treats if that's the problem, and at this point he was already too popular. Actually removing the game made him a lot more popular. About poor countries: if you have money, you have power in poor countries, unlikely to get touched if you pay the right people a fraction of what you have.
- lotsofmangos 13y agoVietnam has a murder rate 5 times lower than the States, at least since the States left. It does tend to be a bit left wing though, which might have something to do with this guys attitude to money.
- rokhayakebe 13y agoHe lives in a poor country (and probably violent) and likely doesn't want to raise flags as the guy earning 50k a day. If the country is that poor, 50k will buy you all the militia you need. And anyhow, it's already too late.
- _pmf_ 13y ago> This is just first world people forgetting there are violent and politically delicate countries elsewhere, I guess. Ahem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentiona...
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- scott_karana 13y agoHomicide rate might not correlate to robbery, harrassment, or extortion. Not to mention the political issue of richness in a nominally Communist nation.
- lotsofmangos 13y agoHomicide would definitely seem to correlate with robbery and extortion, robbery by accident and extortion for the basic reason that otherwise it would be quite hard to extort as nobody would take you seriously. I suspect that the issue of richness might be a social consideration, but they have a progressive tax code that goes up to 35% for those making more than ~ $45,000 per year and there do not appear to be any legal restrictions on maximum income. Oh, and they have been nominally socialist since the late 80's when they got rid of the whole planned economy thing. edit - I just thought, Vietnam strikes me as a particularly bad place to try and run an extortion racket. Whatever you try and threaten them with had better be bloody scary otherwise you run a serious risk of being laughed at by an old bloke with lots of tunneling experience.
- nollidge 13y agoYou could have just googled "Vietnam" if you wanted to find out if you were talking out of your ass or not.
- CmonDev 13y agoIt's enough to now that it is outside of 'murica.