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Gabe Newell caps off Steam Machine week by taking delivery of a new $500 million superyacht with a submarine garage, on-board hospital and 15 gaming PCs
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I was going to say that sounds great and we won't eat him. Then I opened the link and saw that he's giving his money to the Bill & Malinda Gates Foundation and is conditional on Bill and Milenda Gates still being alive and involved. Why do his charitable donations have to go to a different Billionaire?> Bill & Malinda Gates Foundation It's a fantastic charity, and it funds a lot of other great charities. I'm very much not a fan of Bill Gates' career (I'm a diehard Linux user), but his charitable endeavors and recommended book lists are fantastic. I don't care if the person running a charity is a billionaire, I care that they do a good job. He has made philanthropy his life's mission, and that's exactly the kind of person I want backing a charity.
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that moment when the One Good Billionaire
casually orders a boat that costs several times more money than most of us will ever see in our lifetimes 
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Yeah, I recall a Ramsey poll where the fourth highest profession for millionaires is teaching. Learning from others and following a plan is how one becomes a millionaire. Teachers have those critical skills down.
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You realize people can't choose if they are addicted to gambling right? It's the same as any addiction. Most people don't even realize they have a problem until they have hit rock bottom.
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People need to remember a lot of the pro-consumer things that Valve has ever done were things they were forced to by regulation. Like being able to return games? That was to comply with an Australian law, and it was just *easier* to implement it for everyone than just do it for Australia specifically.
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Man can’t be responsible for all the nice things in Steam but absolved of creating a lootbox/gambling empire.
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How? All you're really doing here is stereotyping rich people. For example, Americans are generally fat (higher obesity rate than much of the world), but that doesn't mean *all* Americans are fat. To determine whether a random American is fat, we need to actually look at them, not just know their nationality.What do you mean how? The concept of a billionaire existing being bad has a massive relevance as to whether one individual a billionaire is bad. If the mere fact of being a billionaire is bad, which it obviously is, then it doesn't matter who this individual billionaire is he's already tainted by being a billionaire. That's just one plus one equals two. It's inescapable logic. Of course it's relevant.
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Wow I was a day one Steam Machine, Frame and Controller buyer until this. Maybe people like me are the problem.
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Same. I'd probably build a giant dog park, giant playground for kids, lots of natural trails, etc. make it all free. Build shelters for anyone to use, garages where people could work on their cars safely and out of the elements, bike repair stations, things like that. Fuck a super yacht. Tells you how selfish people are, completely unaware how they got where they are. They could spend 10k/day and never spend all their money, not even a dent. Just selfish pricks. Bring the guillotine.My friends and I have this imaginary scenario of funny things we could do with lots of money. A few that come to mind: - buy all the properties around gated community/HOA entrances and exits. build low income housing. - create an organization that intentionally donates to horrible causes on the condition you can say they accepted the money even if they return it. use the logo and organization name as a canary to warn everyone at a glance something is shady. - start an online youtube-like platform that shares the ways the fuck you money is being used hilariously. allow reposts to other platforms like youtube, but never take down our own shit, making any of their attempts to censor it self harming. I think I'm going to start referring to this scenario as #withGabeNewellsmoney
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Imagine having a dedicated yacht hospital for yourself when most can't afford decent healthcare. I hope people stop idolizing Gabe, he is just your average run of the mill billionaire.
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What do you mean how? The concept of a billionaire existing being bad has a massive relevance as to whether one individual a billionaire is bad. If the mere fact of being a billionaire is bad, which it obviously is, then it doesn't matter who this individual billionaire is he's already tainted by being a billionaire. That's just one plus one equals two. It's inescapable logic. Of course it's relevant.> If the mere fact of being a billionaire is bad, which it obviously is, I don't think that's obvious at all. Becoming a billionaire just means you have a billion dollars worth of assets, and it doesn't say anything about how you got that money. There's a high correlation between billionaire's and being a bad person, but it's not 1:1.
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Imagine having a dedicated yacht hospital for yourself when most can't afford decent healthcare. I hope people stop idolizing Gabe, he is just your average run of the mill billionaire.He does at least use his vessels for research via his company Inkfish. They mapping the ocean floor, discover new species, study different underwater environments etc. They actually hold world records for deepest manned dives of all 5 oceans. Billionaires still shouldn't exist though of course (not /s)
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> If the mere fact of being a billionaire is bad, which it obviously is, I don't think that's obvious at all. Becoming a billionaire just means you have a billion dollars worth of assets, and it doesn't say anything about how you got that money. There's a high correlation between billionaire's and being a bad person, but it's not 1:1.I'm not going to get sidetracked into that conversation. Especially when there is absolutely zero chance of us agreeing on it. The topic was whether or not that determination is relevant. Which again obviously it has to be.
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I'm not going to get sidetracked into that conversation. Especially when there is absolutely zero chance of us agreeing on it. The topic was whether or not that determination is relevant. Which again obviously it has to be.And I argue it's not a given that someone is a bad person just because they have billions of dollars.
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And I argue it's not a given that someone is a bad person just because they have billions of dollars.Cool beans dude, not what we were talking about. We were talking about whether or not that determination is relevant.
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I never understood the appeal of anything rich people like. A yacht? An HOA? A supercar? These don’t appeal to me at all. If given them I would hate them. I mean it might be fun to buy a politician but otherwise it sounds boring.
