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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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> Let me be clear: whether a CEO's personal spending is excessive is a separate moral and political debate. It doesn't, on its own, determine if the price of a service is justified. LEt me be clear: It absolutely does. I can't think of a better indicator.Actually, it's a terrible indicator, because it's completely disconnected from the service you're evaluating. Your anger is about wealth inequality and the ethics of extreme capitalism, which is a totally valid topic. But you're using that anger to answer a different question: 'What is a fair price for this service?' But you are insisting on using that separate topic as the only metric for this one. Since we're fundamentally talking about two different issues and you're refusing to engage with the point about service value, I don't see this conversation being productive any longer.
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Would you buy zionist games? Are you willing to support genocide if the games are good? Do you give a shit about anything at all?
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> Likewise, shame should be where shame is due, like with the whole lootbox gambling economy thing. And while theirs is bad, it's also one of the less bad of the MTX nonsense since you can trade stuff on the market, no? So even when they're bad, they're on the less bad end of the spectrum. > It would be nice to have no billionaires, I agree, but the next best is to eliminate generational wealth. Maybe there should be caps on how much can be inherited, with the rest going to charities the heirs don't directly benefit from. I don't think billionaires are automatically bad people, but there is a strong correlation between huge wealth and bad people.
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I like the way they list those things in the title. Like which one is the most expensive: the hospital, the submarine garage, or **fifteen** gaming PCs?Do they have 5090s in them?
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GabeN is hardly rich enough to end poverty or even just hunger, and that's not the only important cause people could work on. I'd be happy if every billionaire picked some cause and donated to it, no need for society's input.
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You mean the guy that took millions of gamer's money for a series everyone loved and that allowed his company to survive, only to abandon that series in favor of making mountains of cash with another product, may not be the standup guy a bunch of fanboys thought he was? No way.
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proton without newell is proton, but with maybe a different direction proton without valve's workers and WINE/DXVK contributors is nothing. it's literally nothing. the same goes for basically any projects. the billionaire CEOs are (sometimes, not even always!) the people who take decisions. everyone else does the work. without the CEOs, the same projects would have decisions taken in other ways. without the workers, there would be nothing. stop licking billionaire boots.
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Everyone on here acts like Gabe is THEIR billionaire, and Steam is THEIR capitalist billionaire corporation. Gabe is a dirtbag and a thief by the sole virtue of being a billionaire. Nobody earns a billion dollars, you get it by stealing wages and time from the workers below you. Steam is a dirtbag corporation as well, no matter how many fanboys try to sweep Steam’s history of fuckery under the rug
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Or taxes
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Why is everyone acting surprised, this has been Gabe's thing for a long time? He's super into boats and submarines and owns a submarine company or something like that. i think I'm burned out from the news cycle, getting outraged by this just feels like a waste of my emotional energy that I could spend somewhere it will matter.That or you won’t outrage against your god Gabe. “ Elon, trump, bezos, sure fuck those guys, but I don’t have the energy to say fuck Gabe! “
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Never claimed he could end poverty. But he could donate half his money, still be obscenely wealthy, and end hunger for a lot of people.Maybe he's planning to, or maybe he has, idk. We can only really evaluate him on what he does.
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If anarchists could agree on a policy they wouldn't be anarchists.
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Did you think that photo was going to convince people here?
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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 
i get that there's worse out there but i'm tired of people acting like newell is a saint... he's just another billionaire.Yeah, everyone is like "I wanna call it the GabeCube". I dunno man, I get that Valve is letting them work on cool shit but the people working on these things should get credit too. We don't know how big Gabe's involvement too and I don't to deify a billionaire for no obvious reason.
