it’s almost as if there may be room for something in between love and hate, black and white, good and evil
Comment on Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It’s wild how Lemmy gamers and others treat Steam as if it’s a noble corporation and Gabe is THEIR billionaire so he can’t possibly be bad. The fact that he’s a billionaire is proof that he underpaid and stole from everyone below him. There are no good billionaires, and Gabe is not your friend
Jhex@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
OMG GET OUT OF HERE
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Is a killer a good person? Isn’t there a line to cross before you become bad? If you reached billionaire status you left the moral line far behind
Jhex@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
that’s a good way of thinking when you are 6…, by puberty you should have realized it’s not that black and white
pennomi@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Is a killer a good person?
Well yeah, sometimes! It is very context dependent.
5too@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
For example, my grandad was a killer. Fought Nazis in WW2.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 4 weeks ago
The fact that he is a billionaire does not mean that lol. He’s a billionaire because his company gets a cut of every sale of games on his platform, and his platform is the industry standard/default platform for digital distribution. He could be paying his employees a million a year to be a janitor and he’d still be a billionaire, no “stealing” and not one being underpaid.
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Stop defending billionaires, they don’t care about you
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 4 weeks ago
Stop defending billionaires, they don’t care about you.
I’m not “defending billionaires”, I’m correcting misinformation and rubbish. Of course Gabe doesn’t care about us, I never said he did.
Just because he is a billionaire doesn’t mean that he exploited, underpaid, or stole from anyone. He’s a billionaire because he created the only fish in a huge pond that everyone throws money into hand over fist. Like I said, he could be paying everyone there a million dollars a year and he’d still be a billionaire because he OWNS the company. It’s not a publicly traded company, it’s private. He owns it.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
But yet he mighz be one of the beat billionaires in the pool of filth.
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Nicest guy in prison
5too@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Given the state of the US justice system, that’s not much of a gotcha.
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The fact that you wrote this with just vibes makes me love Gabe that much more. I’m finding that the best past in life is to reject whatever the fuck you all are selling since you’re all so out of touch with reality.
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It’s wild how many servile, billionaire lovers there are here today. It’s kinda pathetic
echodot@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
Yes but to be fair it wouldn’t be hard to find someone that felt that they were more exploited by Valve then by the likes of EA or Epic
Demdaru@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I mean, it’s hard to hate on someone who pays his people well, gives fun benefits, cultivates chill working culture and is overall simply a chill guy and whose big, fat marketshare comes from actually working for the customer.
Yeah. He could probably pay better or give more of his wealth into the society. Hell, prolly even should. But the fact is that among anyone else with that title, Gabe looks like a goddamn saint.
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
He’s anti union, valve employees aren’t allowed to unionize. Also seems cool with making money off all the games made by studios who are also underpaying and over working employees
Demdaru@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Anti union sucks. But about money - yeah, Steam is a game selling platform. If they tried to avoid selling games by studios underpaying their workers, they’d evolve into indie game selling platform. Most AAA studios underpay folk, do they not?
endeavor@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
You own shit made in china. You are benefitting from genocide, slave labour, child labour. You are evil.
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
nomy@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
He could direct his company to stop targeting kids with addictive gambling mechanics and looking the other way regarding grey-market resellers.
SnortsGarlicPowder@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
Valve doesn’t make money from keys on the grey market. Only on games bought through Steam, what do you want them to do?
They are the pioneers of lootboxes. No denying that.
Rose@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
Seriously?
Demdaru@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
First of all, admittedly, watched half of it. But also I don’t see the point. Yeah, they have problems coming from their structure, but these seem kinda miniscule compared to any other game company. I mean come on, people looking up to more experienced colleagues for advice was shown there as a problem “because they have more to say”. Or the bias in hiring…that even ex employees seem to understand that it simply happened due to their requirements about experience and such. The video was informative, but…pretty much shortly after mentioning what they aim for when hiring, one could easily foresee most of consequences.
Although damn, the pressure with these must feel enormous. And also…they really seem to say a lot of it up front so where’s problem?