Thanks, but I have my very reasonable doubts

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Child gambling? You mean like Android videogames and Google not caring about it for a while until some EU law??

I didn't knew that involved Valve too..

Valve was making bank before lootcrates, and lootcrates have been available to kids since trading card games.

There is no ethical consumption under capitalism.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

We can nitpick specific examples for everything you want, and we will be correct, but that detracts from the point that Gabe has helped to build things that took decades of slowly getting anywhere.

I wish we didn't need it, but we do.

They hated him because he spoke the truth.

Why are you taking the worth for granted though?

That includes some bad people too ... Well, I dunno how bad, just a certain Larry Ellison still loves working, or so I've heard. Or Bill Gates.

Helps to keep a healthy routine.
Nothing worse than an unstructured day where you mentally waste away.

Yup, if I was worth an obscene amount, I'd still work, but the nature of my work would change. It sounds like he found something he enjoys that happens to make a ton of money.

Gabe shouldnt be able to have the money he has, but his yacht ownership isn't the issue many are making when pointing it out. One is his home, full time, any home he was going own was realistically going to suck for the environment. Last I read the others are all like research vessels, emergency medical facilities for disaster relief, and humanitarian aid, and shit. Not like a zuck's smaller yacht to act as a helipad for his larger yacht thing.

maybe some day we will have a system that prevents people from having that much money, until then any place with an active enough economy has some assholes owning yachts.

Personally, I don’t think billionaires should exist. Even the ones that I think have done cool things.

Yeah, it's in the intersection of two "doubt" points making one "almost sure" point.

First, people getting power get spoiled fast, it's not possible to resist, it's as if I could have any girl I like and she'd like me and I knew that, just no chance to avoid a sensory burnout after a few months of, eh, feeling that. The possibility that a person can resist that is very small, people like Aristotle Onassis, maybe.

Second, if one person is worth, say, 12000 times more than another person, it's important to ask whether they really are, or they can be replaced with like 50 of equals of that another person with proper organization and discipline. The possibility that they really are is almost negligibly small, there are a few people alive for whom one can suggest that and maybe more, but most are like those people we know and love.

I can imagine Gabe Newel being worth 100, maybe 1000 times me for the humanity, purely financially, but something of bigger orders of magnitude seems preposterous. Not even touching upon money affecting our relative legal power balance, where even factor 2 difference is just morally not acceptable.

Not that I'm of any bad opinion of Gabe, Steam is one today's company that both doesn't abuse its customers too much and does a lot of work on the positive side.