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Too many sources to count<\/a>: many people are big mad about US-born freestyle skier Eileen Gu choosing to represent China instead of the United States during the 2026 Milan Winter Olympics, and even more so upon finding out that she was paid around $6.6M from China to do so<\/span><\/p>\n There was probably a time in my life in which I would have looked at these circumstances, and immediately went Eileen Gu is a turncoat sellout, fuck her, and I hope she fails epically on everything she does!!!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n But these days, that\u2019s not even the first thought that comes to my mind when hearing about the saga of Eileen Gu.\u00a0 I\u2019ve had numerous conversations with friends over the years on the topic of \u2018selling out,\u2019 which is something that people love to frivolously fling around whenever they hear of anyone who decides to make money at the expense of exchanging some sort of commodity, be it talent, goods or some other thing<\/em> that they have that others are willing to pay real money for.<\/span><\/p>\n Music bands, professional athletes, content creators of various forms; whenever anyone exchanges their commodities for large sums of money, people all over the internet tend to immediately go hostile and brand them as sellouts, and basically declare them pieces of shit that they immediately want to see fail and immediately not succeed for no other reason than that they\u2019re getting a lot of money and those who react are not.<\/span><\/p>\n I should know, because I\u2019ve definitely declared many groups and individuals sellouts in my lifetime because their success turned me into a jealous fatty who didn\u2019t like that they were becoming rich and I remained an schmuck with a brog that nobody reads.<\/span><\/p>\n But my mindset has kind of changed throughout the years, and yeah, I can\u2019t say that I\u2019m really at all that keen when an entity might sell out, especially if it means the cease or possibility of reduction of the creation of content that I like, but at the same time I\u2019ve developed a more pragmatic understanding that people are trying their best in order to survive in the world, and for lots of us, that requires money, a great deal of it, and the more that some people can amass, the greater quality of life that can be had, if utilized properly.<\/span><\/p>\n More importantly, I\u2019ve been open about the notion that if I were ever to have some sort of talent, creation, service or some sort of commodity that people were willing to pay me egregious amounts of money for, I would probably do it in two fucking seconds.\u00a0 I\u2019d sell the absolute fuck out, if it meant that I could secure wealth and financial freedom for my family, even quicker if said wealth were generational, and I could ensure that my girls\u2019 future families would be wealthy and comfortable.<\/span><\/p>\n I\u2019d be more than willing to endure being called a sellout and have people rooting against my success, if it meant the aforementioned lifestyle could be attained, and frankly I don\u2019t have to like it when those I favor sell out, because I\u2019m sure that when the day is over, they probably feel similarly too.<\/span><\/p>\n So getting back to Eileen Gu, yeah, it doesn\u2019t make me feel particularly positive that she\u2019s repping China ahead of the United States, but in all fairness, her mom is Chinese; Eileen has every right to rep China, and it\u2019s very much allowed in the rules of most international competition, that people are allowed to represent their parents\u2019 and in some cases, grandparents\u2019 heritages, and for some lower-tier class athletes, it\u2019s the only way they can get into the Olympics in the first place.<\/span><\/p>\n Furthermore, she\u2019s already won medals for the United States, two golds and a silver back in 2022, which by the way was in fucking Beijing, so the people of China had to see an American with a Chinese last name, dunking on them in their own homeland.\u00a0 She owes America nothing, as far as I\u2019m concerned, and aside from the $6M simoleons, she\u2019s getting to rep her mother\u2019s heritage, which nobody is at all entitled to criticize.<\/span><\/p>\n I get that China isn\u2019t popular with Americans these days, and a lot of news that I\u2019m reading these days love to cite the human rights violations and atrocities that are going on in that country, but all these American finger pointers also need to look at our own fucking country.\u00a0 America isn\u2019t much better, and we got ICE murdering civilians on the streets, and the Epstein Files are unearthing all sorts of major figures, including the guy voted to the highest office in the country and everyone who has the power to do something about it are are turning blind eyes left and right, so it\u2019s not like America has any moral high ground over fucking China to where Eileen Gu should be getting any criticism in regards to representing the more righteous nation.<\/span><\/p>\n Of course, the money is a flag that many are proclaiming to be the devil in this arrangement, but the way I see it, whether or not it was the driving factor in Gu\u2019s choice to go with China, girl knows her worth, and has found a way to monetize her talents in order to make actual, life-changing money.\u00a0 Not all Olympians have to be in the trades and Home Depot employees in their day jobs, and if someone is willing to pay them big money, they have every right to accept it as long as it\u2019s not illegal.<\/span><\/p>\n Honest question here, what kind of career does a skier even have, past the Olympics?\u00a0 Coaching?\u00a0 It\u2019s not like there\u2019s an MLB\/NBA\/NHL\/NFL of skiing, and I don\u2019t even know if participating in the X-Games even makes money.\u00a0 Skiers might get some endorsements here and there, but by and large, I have to assume that once the Olympics are off the table, there\u2019s not a whole lot of earning capabilities for a world-class skier, no disrespect to the sport.<\/span><\/p>\n That being said, I don\u2019t blame or fault Eileen Gu at all for taking a massive payday and repping her mother\u2019s birth country instead of her own.\u00a0 She\u2019s already done it for America before, and now she gets to do it for her mom\u2019s country, and get paid handsomely for it.<\/span><\/p>\n And the best part is that people have shorter attention spans than ever before these days.\u00a0 Once the Olympics are over, people will more likely than not, forget about the existence of Eileen Gu, and she can get back to enjoying out the rest of her life, six million dollars richer.<\/span><\/p>\n No judgment for taking the bag, even if it means a bunch of shithead Americans are salty over it.\u00a0 They\u2019ll get over it, if they even remember that this even happened, in two weeks.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Too many sources to count: many people are big mad about 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