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Sorry, but this has nothing to do with whether I respect streamers or not.

Streamers produce entertainment. That's fine, I'm all for entertainment -- I pay for Netflix, for instance. But it is just entertainment. You can't have a strong economy based on producing entertainment alone. We need jobs that produce real-life value at some point.

In other words, kudos to the dude in the favela making money out of streaming, good for him. It's just _not_ something that can be scaled and applied to the millions of people living in favelas that need a good job (or any job really).



> We need jobs that produce real-life value at some point.

China did fine gold farming for a decade, I wouldn't dismiss this off hand.

Equally Nubank looks very interesting, thanks for pointing it out.




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