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Side note: Yanis Varoufakis is now the Greek Finance Minister. http://yanisvaroufakis.eu/ http://yanisvaroufakis.eu/ I'm disappointed Valve employees don't blo

by winslow 12y ago

Side note: Yanis Varoufakis is now the Greek Finance Minister. http://yanisvaroufakis.eu/ http://yanisvaroufakis.eu/ I'm disappointed Valve employees don't blog anymore. Abrash is now at Oculus and I doubt Yanis works with Valve anymore. The linux team seems to have gone silet on blog post.

Mahn 12y ago
How did he go from economist at Valve to finance minister in Greece?
- woodchuck64 12y ago
  Gabe knows greatness.
- bananaoomarang 12y ago
  He was a leading Greek economist before being employed at Valve, I think.
- mcv 12y ago
  As the article points out, Valve hired him because of how he described the Germany-Greece relationship, and Valve had a very similar problem with virtual economies. Apparently he was going to experiment with those virtual economies and learn some useful lessons about real economies. I'd love to know what exactly he did at Valve, but if he learned something useful there, that might help with the Greek-German problem.
  - DrStalker 12y ago
    In a few years from now it's going to be really interesting to see what lessons from Valve turned out to be helpful in the real world.
- fnordfnordfnord 12y ago
  A cynical answer is: I bet the Greeks would take anyone they could get; because who the hell would want the job? It was either going to be someone from Goldman Sachs or a crazy person. Since the Greek people would probably tar and feather anyone sent by Goldman, it had to be a crazy person. I hope he does well. It's a lot easier to write papers and give talks than it is to assume a job like "Finance Minister of Greece in 2015".
  - winslow 12y ago
    He definitely has a massive battle to fight with the Greece's problems. I'm quite interested in what he does and I think it might work. My understanding is they want to finally put an end to this loaning money and looking the other way while they kick the can down the road. It's a gamble but at this point there is no way they can pay back the debt anyways.
- Torgo 12y ago
  Experience managing virtual economies.

by winslow 12y ago

Mahn 12y ago

How did he go from economist at Valve to finance minister in Greece?

woodchuck64 12y ago
Gabe knows greatness.
bananaoomarang 12y ago
He was a leading Greek economist before being employed at Valve, I think.
mcv 12y ago
As the article points out, Valve hired him because of how he described the Germany-Greece relationship, and Valve had a very similar problem with virtual economies. Apparently he was going to experiment with those virtual economies and learn some useful lessons about real economies. I'd love to know what exactly he did at Valve, but if he learned something useful there, that might help with the Greek-German problem.
- DrStalker 12y ago
  In a few years from now it's going to be really interesting to see what lessons from Valve turned out to be helpful in the real world.
fnordfnordfnord 12y ago
A cynical answer is: I bet the Greeks would take anyone they could get; because who the hell would want the job? It was either going to be someone from Goldman Sachs or a crazy person. Since the Greek people would probably tar and feather anyone sent by Goldman, it had to be a crazy person. I hope he does well. It's a lot easier to write papers and give talks than it is to assume a job like "Finance Minister of Greece in 2015".
- winslow 12y ago
  He definitely has a massive battle to fight with the Greece's problems. I'm quite interested in what he does and I think it might work. My understanding is they want to finally put an end to this loaning money and looking the other way while they kick the can down the road. It's a gamble but at this point there is no way they can pay back the debt anyways.
Torgo 12y ago
Experience managing virtual economies.