• osanna@lemmy.vg
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    2 days ago

    What would you call someone who has $1B worth of yachts while we’re all struggling to eat and pay bills?

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      20 hours ago

      I’m a lot less angry at him than the ones who seemingly use their wealth exclusively to make our lives worse. He just has a bunch of money to buy boats. He’s the last on the list for me

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        20 hours ago

        yes, but valve still exploits people. They put on steam sales explicitly to get people to buy more. Especially poor people. More, that they otherwise might not be able to afford just because “it’s on sale!”

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          2 hours ago

          I did not say he was innocent. I’m just less concerned with him than I am people like Thiel.

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            18 hours ago

            Right. Because valve puts games on special just because they are good people. It’s absolutely NOT so people will buy more games than they otherwise would have. Definitely not. Nope

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              9 hours ago

              How is selling stuff at a sale evil?

              Because valve puts games on special just because they are good people.

              Who said that? Please give a quote.

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              10 hours ago

              So don’t buy games outside of your means? I never said they do it to be ‘good people’ but the fact that the game is on sale doesn’t force you to buy it. Be a responsible adult.

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      1 day ago

      Like Torvalds, Stallman and Wozniak, Gabe Newell had an idea of how he thought technology should work and has never let up on it, it’s a shame they couldn’t profit as much as Gabe.

      The yacht hobby is a bit much but compared to the standard billionaire hobbies, destroying the planet, rape, and murder, he’s pretty mild.

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        18 hours ago

        You don’t call it a shame when it is a conscious choice:

        “Wozniak has discussed his personal disdain for money and accumulating large amounts of wealth. He told Fortune magazine in 2017, “I didn’t want to be near money, because it could corrupt your values … I really didn’t want to be in that super ‘more than you could ever need’ category.””