$1M/year/person, he could have hired 50 talented developers to work on Linux for 10 years, which makes himself a hero afterall.

No, I mean he _literally does not run those._ It's like blaming the bank for 'running a drug empire' when someone buys some weed.

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.

It's not you, it's the billionaires who are the problem. It doesn't matter what you buy.

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

Ye but he's one of the good ones

> 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.

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)

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.

Cool beans dude, not what we were talking about. We were talking about whether or not that determination is relevant.

Real. Give me a state of the art lab for multidisciplinary scientific research and some of the world's best scientists to do as they wish in that lab. I have so many unanswered questions about the universe.

Pork, actually. Everyone's favorite dish: gilded long pig

He owns a lot of boats, both the RV6000 (currently being constructed) and the Pressure Drop belong to him - pressure drop does some very good science, and has for quite a long time. He *also* owns a fleet of pleasure yachts. The two groups of ships are conflated for... reasons I actually cannot understand.

Would bet cash money this article was sponsored by Tim Sweeny, who is also a billionaire lol. Not saying this excuses Gabe Newell in any way, but this was made purely to attack Valve's newly announced product. They had no issue when a billionaire with an order of magnitude more wealth than both Tim or Gabe went around advertising his shitty Amazon MMO: https://www.pcgamer.com/jeff-bezos-heralds-new-worlds-success-after-many-failures-and-setbacks-in-gaming/ >It's impossible to say where New World will be in a year, whether it will be on the road to obscurity or finally giving World of Warcraft something to sweat about, but right now it's a huge success that validates the commitment and patience Amazon has taken with it. Bezos may not have had a direct hand in its creation, but as the person who greenlighted Amazon's foray into gaming more than a half-decade ago, you can understand his pride in it. 

If you're interested, there is a great documentary on Youtube about it: https://youtu.be/eMmNy11Mn7g

Sounds like a porn site

He bought that off the tears of teenagers not getting the knife they wanted over and over and over again. Scumbag.

Isn’t he CEO of Valve, a company with famously lean amount of staff?

Yes, he's the president of _Valve_, not the CEO of multiple online casinos for underage customers. Those generally are not based in the US in the first place.