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KAtieTot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week agoIdk. It’s exhausting the way they’re all “there are so many powerful people on both sides pulling the strings here” “amazing how powerful billionaires are”.
It’s impressive to be that stupid.
Katana314@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Some people have no sense of scale and nuance.
I am fully aware Bill Gates is a shady guy who has done bad shit to destroy consumer choice in OS. There is still a massive gulf between him and outwardly vocal evil billionaires like Bezos and Musk.
I get annoyed that even here on Lemmy people will say all billionaires are equally evil. While still faithfully giving their money to Valve/Steam/GNewell.
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Yeah I really hate the hypocritical Gabe worship. Like they actively give a pass to some blatantly anti competitive practices that steam has just because there few competitors that have attempted to enter the market had… Slightly fewer features than the entrenched monopoly platform that has had 20+ years to develop.
Katana314@lemmy.world 1 week ago
See, this isn’t even the take I’m focused on.
Gabe is definitely not a “perfect good” for the world. No billionaire is. But so many of them are so far down on the list of evils corrupting our country, I get annoyed at the level of focus applied to every person with more than exactly $1,000,000,000 worth.
Would I agree that no individual should have that much value, yes! But they’ve done different things to get there. Some of them exploited people’s addiction to certain games, which is just not as harmful as the others that have destroyed entire markets or gained their entire net worth by lobbying the US Defense Industry into waging wars.
Other billionaires literally just performed in very popular concerts and some people find them evil simply because of the size and quantity of those ticket sales. At that point, you very much have to question the motivation behind the hate. It could almost be said to aim to starve a political movement of all potential donors.