There is factually no such thing as a good billionaire, and to pretend it’s an opinion based thing is just yet more lickspittle behavior.
There are less bad ones, but you cannot become a billionaire without hurting a shitload of people. It’s arguable that valve has been a terrible thing for pc gaming since it’s led to the death of ownership. But this is one of quite literally thousands of things that can be litigated in his case.
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
I don’t see how Gaben hurt anyone. I don’t think that Gaben is a bad billionaire. Unlike you I understand how people have different views and understand that everyone has a different interpretation of what “good” and “bad” means.
4grams@awful.systems 1 day ago
Because you don’t do much research outside of the ways that it’s impacted you.
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
You have no knowledge of what I research.
4grams@awful.systems 1 day ago
No, but I definitely have knowledge of what you don’t.
Look, suck up all you want, but there just is no good billionaires. There are ones where the goals are temporarily aligned, but to think that any of them do what they do for the benefit of others is just a moronic take. Some probably started that way but ALL billionaires alive do what they do for themselves, their own power and control. Gabe is better than most, but he’s still on the list and has done many terrible things. Valve is better than most gaming companies, but it’s still a DRM platform that has no customer support and dictates how the industry has to bend to their will.
I can tell you haven’t done your research because there are many stories of valve fucking people over, and again, valve is arguably a net negative for gaming in general due to how it’s completely destroyed the idea of ownership. We all only have access to our shit due to their good graces. I personally hate having thousands of dollars of things I’ve paid for, controlled by one single company (I too used to assume they were the good ones).