One Man’s Journey From Welfare to World’s Hottest Video Game
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Three years ago, Brendan Greene was on welfare in his hometown of Kildare, Ireland, getting an earful from social workers about how he should stop wasting time developing free computer games.
“They were telling me to look for jobs or I’ll be cut off,’’ says Greene. “I kind of ignored them.”