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[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago

Gabe Newell has a net worth of $9.5 billion and there is no such thing as an ethical billionaire. Steam is great and as long as the company behaves well there's no reason not to use it, but billionaires are not your friends.

[-] stoly@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

They are some rare cases where someone becomes a billionaire because something suddenly took off.

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Had she not went TERF, JK Rowling would be next to Gabe.

[-] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 0 points 5 months ago

She would arguably be better, because she doesn't provide gambling services to minors.

[-] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

Steam is selling lootbox and profiting from cs skins gambling. Pretty fucking scummy.

[-] index@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

Yes, their profits.

[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 0 points 5 months ago

Even then, a person can survive just fine with $900 million dollars, and $100 million to the right charity can do a world changing amount of good.

There are no ethical billionaires.

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev -1 points 5 months ago

Only a Sith deals in absolutes.

[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago

That statement is an absolute.

[-] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 0 points 5 months ago

Sort of agree but look how much he's done for Linux gaming. Also the steam deck was well thought out and designed to be user serviceable.

[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 0 points 5 months ago

Was that all Gabe? Or was that people at Valve who had the ideas and executed the ideas and Gabe is given credit for?

[-] Natanael@infosec.pub -1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

"yes"? He's definitely not building any significant fraction himself, but if he didn't care for these things he wouldn't let the company put so much resources into them.

Credit for the things built goes to the people building them. Credit for it being possible to build goes to the people who founded and funded the teams

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