Comment on Steam Is Run By Fewer Than 80 Staff, Lawsuit Docs Reveal

• Bronzie@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Then what is the point?

  Why are they not allowed to create a good service and profit?
  Why are the competition unable to take marketshare with lower fees?

  It feels as if you have this number, >billion, makes a company evil. Why?

  I agree with you that no single person needs a billion, but having earned it doesn’t make them bad. They innovate and move everything forwards. I’d much rather see my money with Valve than with EA, Activision Blizzard or any of the other faceless giants out there.

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  • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Multimillionaires, billionaires, they’re all part of the problem.

    They’re allowed to make a good product and profit, there’s no reason why we allow them to profit so fucking much, if they do it’s because we’re paying more for their product than they actually need to charge us.

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    • Bronzie@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sure, then «attack» the politicians allowing this to happen.

      Up corporate tax and income tax for the wealthy.

      Don’t attack the companies that play by the rules.

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      • Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The funniest thing is, there are billionaires out there that agree tax laws are messed up and think they should be paying more taxes. For them it’s just a stressful hassle to work out which charities should take their money.

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      • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        All of them deserve to be arranged, there’s nothing moral about being a multimillionaire while people are starving.

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    • Albbi@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I agree with you that there’s a problem, but I think you’re targeting the wrong villian here. I shop local whenever I can but there are a few things that are just… big. Video games are worldwide and getting them off the internet is nice. There’s no such thing as a local video game distributor. There’s local indie game development which I do support, but Steam is a product I like which does its job very well.

      The problem here is scale, not necessarily who individuals are buying from. Take major league sports as an example. Salaries for indivudual players are in the millions because of the amount of eyeballs attached to wallets that are interested in watching those players. Less eyeballs, less money, and the players would probably be doing the same thing but not be making as much money. Same thing with music. It’s very hard for an artist to make a good living with music, but once they hit global awareness suddenly money will come rollin in from all over the place. This isn’t a problem with the people doing the jobs (although it could be said that major league sports should charge less, they are trying to maximize their profit) but is the result of the amount of people who are willing to pay.

      The probelm you’re having is that a company is allowed to suck up so much money and keep it. That’s a problem for governments to handle. Individuals can choose who to give their money to, but sometimes there aren’t any other good choices.

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      • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s their choice to take a cut big enough that they’re making that kind of profit, no one is forcing them, it’s all greed.

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    • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Multimillionaires, billionaires, they’re all part of the problem.

      So what laws are you proposing to fix this? Or do you just think whining that they exist will cause them to give away their money?

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      • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Wealth taxation up to 100%

        Limited share for distributors/publishers

        Implement that and just watch as everyone becomes richer all of the sudden.

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    • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      A million dollars isn’t what it used to be. There are older working class multi-millionaires who have saved that much from entirely their own labor.

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• morriscox@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So he should get the address of every single person in the country and divide his money equally among every single person and have no money for himself? Maybe only keep the same amount for himself that each other person is getting? That’s ~342 million people. Give them $3 each and no more billionaire. Worth $10B? $30 for each person.

  Elon Musk is the wealthiest person in the USA and is worth $251B. $750/person would help for rent for one month. You could take money away from babies and maybe get a full month, maybe two.

  Jeff Bezos is next at $161B. That’s about $480/person.

  Of course, this means that their money is gone. No golden goose. Do you think that they should subsidize every person in the country?

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  • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Or simply say “I guess 30% is more than we need, let’s cut that to 10% and see how that goes.”

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    • morriscox@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Perhaps 10%. Taxes at one point went up to 90%. Some companies do need more, especially small businesses. As for not needing to subsidize anyone, when the pandemic struck and the checks went out a lot of people paid bills (I managed to get rid of my student loan debt, with help) but many went on spending sprees and some of those still couldn’t pay rent. Wealth distribution isn’t as great as it sounds and I’m on SSDI.

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      • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        “when the pandemic struck”… The pandemic that was caused by poor people hunting wild animals to sell their meat to make a living? Gosh darn, I wonder what we could have done to make it so these people wouldn’t have to resort to that to make a living… Oh well 🤷

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    • RiikkaTheIcePrincess@pawb.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You’ve got the proverbial “patience of a saint.” Shame about all’ the bootlickers around here, though. I’d thought/hoped better of Lemmy but still people’s brains turn off when they’ve chosen a team :(

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      • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Incredible how you look at the comment history of all these people and all of them have comments about not having enough money or being angry at rich people, but all critical thinking goes out the window when it’s for a hobby they like, suddenly whatever they’re told to spend is perfectly OK!

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