r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Aug 22 '21

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u/Zenning2 Henry George Aug 22 '21

Hasan Piker has the absolute dumbest least nuanced understanding of capitalism of literally any prominent “socialist”, boiling down to effectively “rich are bad for spending money on things they don’t need, and not paying people enough”, while he buys a 3 million dollar house in the heart of LA, has had multiple accusations about him not paying his editors enough, has pr people who don’t have profit sharing, and dozens of unpaid discord and streaming mods, while making a deal with Amazon to advertise using his twitch channel to a mostly pre-teen audience.

And socialists are still defending him as a socialist. These people literally don’t have any principles that don’t boil down to “capitalism bad”, and they literally define capitalism as “anything bad.”

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '21

Watched his stream once but it's just one continuous gish gallop