that moment when the One Good Billionaire™ casually orders a boat that costs several times more money than most of us will ever see in our lifetimes 🙃
i get that there’s worse out there but i’m tired of people acting like newell is a saint… he’s just another billionaire.
People need to remember a lot of the pro-consumer things that Valve has ever done were things they were forced to by regulation.
Like being able to return games? That was to comply with an Australian law, and it was just easier to implement it for everyone than just do it for Australia specifically.
I like Valve more than most companies, but exactly, they are not Saints by any measure.
Everyone also seems to ignore that they started the lootbox epidemic.
In general, I think being decent to customers is a business strategy, because the barrier to entry for a Steam competitor is nearly non-existent, and there’s always piracy. Still, capitalism working the way it’s “supposed to” is still capitalism.
the barrier to entry for a Steam competitor is nearly non-existent
My brother in christ have you heard of network effects?
Network effects and chill?
I never understood the appeal of anything rich people like. A yacht? An HOA? A supercar? These don’t appeal to me at all. If given them I would hate them.
I mean it might be fun to buy a politician but otherwise it sounds boring.
Same. I’d probably build a giant dog park, giant playground for kids, lots of natural trails, etc. make it all free.
Build shelters for anyone to use, garages where people could work on their cars safely and out of the elements, bike repair stations, things like that.
Farmers markets with real prices, completely remove all investors and profit hell, just back to basics. Healthcare too.
Fuck a super yacht. Tells you how selfish people are, completely unaware how they got where they are.
They could spend 10k/day and never spend all their money, not even a dent. Just selfish pricks. Bring the guillotine.
