• Cevilia (they/she/…)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      8 days ago

      Normalising digital restrictions management and renting games rather than owning them. He didn’t start it. But he sure as hell normalised it.

      Holding a near-monopolistic position in PC gaming and taking a one-third cut of most PC games sold, and an up-front fee to be allowed to sell your game in the first place.

      And then spending that eye-popping sum of money on multiple yachts rather than, I don’t know, maybe improving the world even a little?

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        7 days ago

        Newell funds marine research, and some of the yachts that he had commissioned are research vessels. Are you saying that marine research doesn’t improve the world?

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        Gabes goals are twofold. Make money for himself and those under him and improve the PC game space.

        He does both both unapologetically and without secrets or shady shit. Honestly, it’s not his responsibility to fix the world. It’s ours collectively. He does his small part to improve what he can. He saw a need and he does his best to fill it. And at the same time he pays his workers the highest wages in the entire industry. Most people who work at valve are millionaires.

        I believe billionaires need to be taxed out of existence but this one is not the one that we need to hang first

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          7 days ago

          Honestly, it’s not his responsibility to fix the world.

          Yes it fucking is. What the hell am I supposed to do other than occasionally turn a blind eye while grannies shoplift 65p packets of biscuits? Which, if my boss is reading this, I obviously would never ever do. He has the means to actually do it.

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            7 days ago

            its the politicians that are enabling this to happen they are supposed to do that, and to keep billionaires in check.

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            It’s not his job to feed the world either. That’s our goddamn government’s job. He puts money where he wants. That’s the system we live under and we can fix that and change it but until we do denigrating this one man out of all the evil billionaires is kind of strange.

            He also funds a Marine research facility that maps the ocean floor and gives scientists access to deep sea diving tools and submarines. He donates to charity occasionally, to the tune of hundreds of thousands to millions. What have you done other than complain on the internet?

            You need to understand the propaganda machine’s in full swing. There are enemies online that pretend to be your allies and they slowly turn your opinions. You’re being brainwashed.