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Casual reminder that Gabe Newell owns 6 yachts worth an estimated US$1 billion and that he is not your friend.
not my friend, but not as clearly my enemy as many other wealthy people
Class consciousness leaving my body when the money hoarder owns the store I buy treats from
So true
Wow.
A huge chunk of that Linux development was paid for by exploiting child gambling.
Just because one does a few good things with their money, doesn't justify how they got it.
Child gambling? You mean like Android videogames and Google not caring about it for a while until some EU law??
I didn't knew that involved Valve too..
There is no ethical consumption under capitalism.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
We can nitpick specific examples for everything you want, and we will be correct, but that detracts from the point that Gabe has helped to build things that took decades of slowly getting anywhere.
I wish we didn't need it, but we do.
Valve was making bank before lootcrates, and lootcrates have been available to kids since trading card games.
Sure, we know loot boxes are bad because they exploit the psychology of gambling. But what about Steam sales? They’re exploiting FOMO, hoarding/collecting psychology. We know that Steam users are buying billions of dollars worth of games they never play.
Now you're being actually ridiculous. "Sales are bad"? Really?
Regular sales are FOMO? Come on.
This dude is 100% correct and I have no idea why people are downvoting him. Sales make people more likely to buy a product due to being limited. Limited time sales work better than lowering prices in the long term.
It's why indie games do stuff like release their new games with time-limited 10% off discounts.
Ah yes, paying less is bad. Viva capitalism. /s
Are you daft or dumb? Pick one.
Paying less is good. I love sales, but they are still a psychological manipulation to get you to spend more money than you normally would.
Then its a good manipulation
Not sure exactly what you're trying to say here but I guarantee 0% of that wealth came from his investments in Linux support. Their investment in Linux is mostly a way of keeping MS in check, as in "if you try to fuck us the way Apple does with iOS, your customers will leave Windows because they'd rather have something where they can play their giant library of existing games".
No, it's not a way to keep anything in check. It's a way to not pay license fees to Microsoft.
Same thing.
I don't take issue with rich people. Owning boats worth US$1 billion is past the point of rich.
Gabe Newell is better than many others, but this is true, the best man on Earth will become an absolute pissbag given power for continuous enough period of time to realize that.
And the best man on Earth is probably some volunteer medic in some African warzone, not a computer programmer and a tech businessman.
Power always corrupts.
Jacinda Adern as New Zealand PM seemed to be sort of that type
I just dont understand miney obsessed people. Why the hell do you need multiple yachts? Why even work at this point when you could just .. not? You would still afford everything you ever want without ever checking your bank account. I just dont get it.
He probably enjoys working. Lots of people like to feel like they're making things happen
I would 100% still work if I were rich. The only thing that would change is when and what I work on.
Helps to keep a healthy routine.
Nothing worse than an unstructured day where you mentally waste away.
I still manage to do that with a job 😎👉