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Gaben has the best PR of any billionaire. People think he and his company aren't just as shitty as any other multi yacht owning billionaire and profit machine company out there.
Apart from exploiting gambling addicts and you not really owning most games, Valve are rather consumer friendly. Or at least they appear to be because their competitors are even worse.
Does that mean you think it's ok Gabe has multiple yachts?
Careful... You'll get downvoted for knowing that info.
Clearly not.
Given human nature I find it hard to blame rich people for using their money on themselves. We need laws to change (aka much, much higher taxes)
Someone's perspective on what's an appropriate standard of living changes with what they're used to. That's just how the human brain works. I constantly hear people that make the same or more than me, that live in the same country as me in an area with similar cost of living, complain about how little money they have, while I feel like I have all I really need and more. They just consider different things as "necessary".
Is it incredibly disconnected to consider owning even one yacht as anything close to necessary? Absolutely. But anything you want, your brain will take it for granted once you get it and make you want even more.
Human nature? You think greed is just part of human nature? That's disheartening.
I don't thinks that is greed actually, Gabe gaining more and more money is greed but spend that wealth in random shit is just like people do, if you have billions the random shit you can buy is more pricy.
Fuck billionaire anyway
Is that not greed? He holds on to his money and puts them in places that can't be taxed. Speaking of taxes, he doesn't pay his fair share by far. Are these not examples of greed? People are poor. Social systems are failing. These billionaires, even the ones people seem to like such as Gaben and Taylor Swift, are just holding wealth. They're like dragons lording over piles of gold.
Billionares creating politics and buying politicians so they can continue to be rich is greed totally, but unless yatch is a scheme to avoid taxes that I don't know they buying it is like me buying toys to put on my desk in a large scale.
Alright.
No he can fuck right of, nobody should ever own that much. I was saying Valve is consumer friendly, relatively speaking.
Well, if you look at their main competitors, it's kinda true though.
The best turd is still a turd.