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

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    7 days ago

    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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    6 days ago

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

    It just so happens that’s 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.

    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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    6 days ago

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

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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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          He’s not gonna give you a million dollars or a big wet kiss on the mouth dude, you can stop sticking up for the big nerd. He’s a billionaire and chooses to continue being a billionaire - that is a BIG thing that makes him a bad person.

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      6 days ago

      Sadly, he is. This is what the enemy looks like. It is simply not possible to ethically acquire even a tenth of the wealth that he hoards for himself. The damage he has caused in acquiring and retaining that wealth is far greater than his net worth.

      The sooner he starts his redemption arc, the better.

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    6 days ago

    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.

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    6 days 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