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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
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.
Jacinda Adern as New Zealand PM seemed to be sort of that type
Power always corrupts.
Maybe it's you!
Thanks, but I have my very reasonable doubts
We believe in you, rottingleaf!
Thx, will remember that
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.
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.
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.
Regular sales are FOMO? Come on.
Now you're being actually ridiculous. "Sales are bad"? Really?
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.
They hated him because he spoke the truth.
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".
Hey if Gabe wants to make Linux phones something to be taken seriously I’m all for that. Until then, Gemini creeps me the fuck out so no android. I can tolerate Siri being fucking dumb.
Man, I just can't stand a phone that seems like it's built for children to use and not be able to hurt themselves.
I think you missed the point. No one was talking about Android or iOS. We were talking about Windows and Linux.
Valve's investment in Linux began back in the Windows Vista days when MS tried to control Windows the same way that Apple does with iOS.
You literally mentioned iOS above. And my point stands. If Gabe were to start porting those games to a Linux phone of some sort, it would really help that platform, much like he’s helped the Linux community and his own business interests.
Him going after Microsoft benefits everybody. Him going after Apple could do the same.
It's literally called an analogy. It was not literally the subject of the conversation.
You're still literally demonstrating that you don't understand the motive of supporting Linux, despite me literally just explaining it.
Gabe literally does not care about the platform, he cares about protecting his revenue stream. Making Linux phones would literally not do that.
I don't take issue with rich people. Owning boats worth US$1 billion is past the point of rich.
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.
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 😎👉
He probably enjoys working. Lots of people like to feel like they're making things happen
He said he's having fun 🤪
Yup, if I was worth an obscene amount, I'd still work, but the nature of my work would change. It sounds like he found something he enjoys that happens to make a ton of money.
That's the dream really. Whether that thing you love makes money or not, that's what you can do once you have enough.
Exactly. I have a few ideas for that, but I'm not nearly to the point of funding them:
I'm working on the last two in my spare time, but I'm not willing to quit my day job and rely on the those to pay the bills. If I got a windfall, I'd consider it, but of not, I hope to be there in my lifetime 50s. We'll see.
I'm sure many (most?) have something similar.
He's last on the list to be eaten though.