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

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.

The time we spent the past 20 years fighting surveillance, private political funding, and proprietary systems will never be given back to us. That is something more valuable than money that the billionaires have collectively taken from us. When we do finally get our rights and humanity reinstated properly, that will be a lot of near wasted time for millions of people. Gave was one of the good ones. He had principles no matter how much money he had which is commendable. I consider Bill Gates to be one of the good billionaires too. Windows wasn't really bad until he left the company.

Well history shows, that guillotining your ruling class, such as happened in France, leads to centuries of rational peace and prosperity. The French successfully ended all wars, and liberalism ushered in an instant and uninterrupted 250 year peace. Since they designed their guillotines not to cut the heads of any undeserving peasants who were caught in the political maelstrom, and enlightened the peasants so that every citizen was a productive and conscientious member of society, every French person and all of their descendants has become a productive civic philosopher. No despot ever managed to come to power in France ever again, and certainly not within 10-15 years.

Having successfully merged society with the Hegelian world spirit of human freedom, the rest of Europe gave up all colonies, freed the people, and helped them achieve a level of national and self actualization in line with the French wave of historic human transformation. No despot ever managed to come to power in Europe again.

Now, the world's children know no fear or hunger, only freedom and reason; and its all thanks to the fact that the French did such a good job chopping the heads off of exactly the right people.

since the game news shelf ui update he really does deserve to be eaten

Valve invented or normalised a ton of crap that's plaguing modern gaming: game launchers, always online DRM, microtransactions, achivements, lootboxes...

I'm not saying you should stop using Steam. Go ahead, buy the Frame, VR is awesome and it looks like a really solid headset, but do it without kissing Gabe's ass if you can. Corpos are not your friends.

I'd give all the billionaires the same choice:

(a) Give away everything except, say, 25 million.

(b) Guillotine.

If he continues to be a billionaire, yes.

Amassing that level of wealth is not an accident, it's by choice.

There is no such thing as a good billionaire. There are billionaires who might be temporarily aligned with you but make no mistake, none of them will love you back..

Valve is in a very unique spot where employees are all paid well because of the low amount of employees they have and the massive income they generate; in their employee reviews you typically don't really see low salary as a reason to leave.

Billionaires aren't your friends. Corporations aren't your friends.

Idealizing billionaires is cringe. Eat them all. Just because he's not a complete asshole like all the other parasites doesn't make him a good person. He's still a parasite.

Why? He takes a 30% cut from every game sale just because his platform has a dominant grasp on gamers.

I don’t understand how people can hate taxes (which go on to pay for schools and roads) but not the way larger cut that digital storefronts charge.

Look, he can be a rich guy and a leader. 1 billion is a decent line in the sand of "sorry, you own too much". He's certainly not as nakedly evil as most the rest of his ilk.

Being a billionaire is immoral in all cases

I have no problem with people who contribute a lot of value to society being proportionally rewarded. However, having a net worth in the billions is just plain ludicrous, especially since the billionaires aren’t the ones creating all the value, they’re just controlling it. For example, did Gabe invent everything that makes Valve as successful as it is, or was most of it designed and developed by engineers who are paid a fraction of what he is paid? Even if most of Valve’s IP started with Gabe and other engineers were doing the grunt work to “make it so”, that still shouldn’t mean that society allows this one man to control billions worth of our societal resources.

Take all of his assets, let him live. Then take all of his assets again 5 years later

Offer him the option to transition Valve to a workers cooperative. Boom, he would no longer be a billionaire.

We don't have to eat them all, but we do have to take their money.