Am I just deceived? I think I might love him?

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    19 hours ago

    Valve makes tonnes of money from loot boxes or whatever they’re called. Basically a form of gambling.

    It also just so happens that a great way of making a shit load of money is making it super easy for people to buy from you. Valves big competitive advantage is just… not fucking that up. A surprising number of companies fuck that up.

    And as someone else said, Gabe doesn’t have to be a billionaire. He could use his phenomenal wealth to build hospitals and help the poor, rather than building his own little private navy.

    Valve is doing a lot that will make people like them, but they’re still a huge corporation, and Gabe is still a billionaire.

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    Gabe and Swift are not obligate billionaires. They both have the capacity to adjust their wealth to avoid the cutoff.

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    This is really simple. If you have more than a 1000 million dollars. Every day you decide to keep it instead of saving lives and helping people. It will never be moral

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    I want to say that Gabe is a good guy, because he’s a gamer like many of us, and because Valve is so pro-consumer, and because supposedly the company is mostly rid of hierarchy, but he’s still a billionaire unfortunately.

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            I think the commenter is talking about the steam marketplace featuring a lot of CS assets which people do buy and sell for real money.

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              What I’m talking about is that there isn’t a way to “withdraw” your money like the illegal sites let you. So no, there isn’t a way to gamble through Steam.

              In fact, Steam does what they have the power to do in reporting those sites and getting them taken down.

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                Oh sorry, I always thought there was a way to withdraw money from your steam wallet to your bank account.

                I haven’t used steam in a few years though, and haven’t interacted with the marketplace in longer than that, so wouldn’t really know!

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    23 hours ago

    See, the thing is, once you eat the one percent, the bottom eighty percent want to eat.The top twenty percent and the bottom seventy percent want to eat.The top thirty percent.And then we just become the human centipede

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    Honestly you shouldn’t judge anyone as a group, even billionaires. They are not all evil, probably mostly evil though even if just in the basic sense of destroying the world for profit, both physically and in terms of human happiness.

    The time we spent the past 20 years fighting surveillance, private political funding, and proprietary systems will never be given back to us. That is something more valuable than money that the billionaires have collectively taken from us. When we do finally get our rights and humanity reinstated properly, that will be a lot of near wasted time for millions of people. Gave was one of the good ones. He had principles no matter how much money he had which is commendable. I consider Bill Gates to be one of the good billionaires too. Windows wasn’t really bad until he left the company.