Anatoly Yakovenko

And people that come here from all over the world come here because of that.

So they're almost self-selected through survivor bias.

Like the biggest defenders of capitalism are gonna be ex-USSR immigrants, if you ever meet any.

Subsidies break incentives.

100%.

Yeah.

So when I was a kid, I thought United States was like Manhattan, just coast to coast with no nature, just like skyscrapers.

Yeah.

It was bizarre, right?

Because the Western films and stuff like that colored my idea of America and then gangster Chicago, New York films.

And I just had this belief that

America was just rebuilt into just skyscrapers coast to coast.

It's kind of silly, right?

So landing in Chicago, I was both disappointed, kind of like it was a shock that there was like country and farms and all of this.

Like literally it was just bizarre to me that there were farms in America.

And at the same time though, 91 Chicago was like the center of

music and basketball and sports.

And I was a kid that didn't have access to any media.

So I was like a sponge absorbed all of it.

Um, my first dollars that I made was that winter me and my friend, we walked from house to house asking people, we could shovel their snow.