> ethical billionaire A close example is [Warren Buffett](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Buffett#Philantropy). He's about as ethical as they come IMO. He still lives in the same house he bought over 60 years ago, and he has given away a _ton_ of money: > As of June 2025, Buffett had donated over $60 billion to charitable causes. Hearing him talk about it, it's apparently really hard to give away that amount of money. He wants to give away something like 99% of his money, but he seems to really like his job and that takes priority for him. He has claimed his children are tasked w/ giving the rest away within 10 years of his passing, outside of the little he has marked for inheritance.

This one is just the latest in [his collection,] looks like this is #7.(https://luxurylaunches.com/transport/gabe-newell-luxury-yachts.php)

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.

Dude, I thought you were cool. Owning a yacht is like the lamest thing you could possibly do! With the coolest things being feeding the hungry and housing the poor obviously.

what does he need the 15 gaming pcs for??

Million ain't as much as it used to be. There are actually tons of millionaire teachers.

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?

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, 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.

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.

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.

$500 million that could have gone toward the development of Half Life 3...

Man can’t be responsible for all the nice things in Steam but absolved of creating a lootbox/gambling empire.

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.

Wow I was a day one Steam Machine, Frame and Controller buyer until this. Maybe people like me are the problem.