He has 6 yachts from kiddie gambling...
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Valve makes tonnes of money from loot boxes or whatever they’re called. Basically a form of gambling.
It also just so happens that a 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. A surprising number of companies fuck 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.
We shouldn't eat them. I don't want prion disease.
In my opinion if anyone has billions of dollars and hasn't given a majority of it away to charity or those in need, that person is on some level at least somewhat an evil person.
Sure, much of it would be tied up in stocks and stuff that legally can't be sold for specific purposes or timeframes, but if you have net worth in the billions and any stocks that could be sold for cash and then donated it should be. Or if you have an annual income that's much more than you need to live an extremely comfortable life and then you just spend and invest the excess instead of donate.
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ABAB. All billionaires are bad.
A billionaire who gives away 99% of their wealth to the poorest, first and exclusively, isn't a billionaire, and still has enough money (maybe more!) for the rest of time.
I'm not eating Elon Musk. That's like dumpster diving behind a cracker barrel.
The fattest pigs make the crispiest bacon.
He can buy his freedom by using his wealth to finally release hl3
"Billionaire" is a convenient modern buzzword. It used to be "millionaire". The classic joke from Austin Powers where Dr. Evil demands money is a good example. It's just inflation.
Plus, a lot of "billionaires" are only considers such because they own shares in their corporations. It's a "theoretically if they could find a way to sell all of those shares at the current price without tanking the market value of those shares in the process, they could get $X billion from that".
If there were a theoretical global revolution, on of the the first steps of eating the rich is to seize and nationalize those businesses. Later, land reform will seize the extra mansions they own. They will still be left with adequate personal property to live quite comfortably. Finally, the justice system will need to evaluate what labor laws (or other laws) they may have been violating for years and using their wealth to get away with.
Start with the biggest fish and watch as the rest start to downsize voluntarily and cut deals to avoid jail.
I don't expect to see any of this in my lifetime. Not in any major country, and certainly not globally.
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Offer him the option to transition Valve to a workers cooperative. Boom, he would no longer be a billionaire.
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We can save him for desert.
In ten years people will talking about the GabeCube killing PC modularity like they always saw it coming
Gabe and Swift are not obligate billionaires. They both have the capacity to adjust their wealth to avoid the cutoff.
I'll let the normies keep swift if we can keep gabe
They are both part of the problem.
Why eat them? You better turn them to compost, so they can actually help something grow.
If it were to be a revolution he would be given the chance. Just be a director of valve for a normal director salary. If he take it then he would be just another worker.
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.
Give him the ability to divest his wealth first.
He has the ability right now.
Doesn't really count if you're only doing it once people threaten you with murder.
Just universal wealth redistribution, there is no way a human may ever deserve to accumulate so many resources...
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