• RoosterBoy@lemm.ee
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    1 day ago

    Because his billions were earned from offering an actually decent service beholden to the customers rather than the shareholders, something not many other billionaires seem capable of. Yeah, nobody needs a billion dollars but literally everyone else in the gaming industry would rather shoot themselves in the foot to make a penny now rather than… Just simply not do that and make a dollar later.

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      47 minutes ago

      You cannot possibly earn a billion dollars. That money is the excess labor value of Valve workers. In the context of how our society is currently structured Gaben certainly isn’t the worst of them, but he’s still a member of the parasite class.

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      24 hours ago

      Yeah, if valve started taking step towards enshittification people would turn on Gabe too.

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      22 hours ago

      literally everyone else in the gaming industry would rather shoot themselves in the foot to make a penny now rather than… Just simply not do that and make a dollar later.

      Ah, the shortsighted joy of publicly traded companies.

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        5 hours ago

        Every other game company does that, too, ON TOP of all the other shit they do.