Am I just deceived? I think I might love him?
There is a finite amount of money in this world. For one person to have more means others have less. There is no going around that simple fact.
When we eat the billionaires, we should spare Gabe Newell? No?
Submitted 1 month ago by ivanafterall@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Vetis@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
There is a finite amount of money in this world.
Not really… that’s kind of the whole point of fiat currencies, you can always mint more.
Most billionaires don’t even have any money. At that level they don’t need it. They don’t pay for things. They just get loans they’ll never pay back, with older loans as collateral.
The problem with billionaires isn’t money (though billionaires are one of the main problems with money). The problem with billionaires is that their fiat, virtual, wealth gives them an unfair amount of influence over everyone else’s lives, and that they alone get to enjoy a living standard (being able to get all your necessities and live a fulfilling life essentially for free) that should (and could, with an adequate distribution of resources) be available to everyone.
Vetis@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Let’s say there are 100 tables in the world. If one person has 50 tables then it means everyone else has less. If mister tables aquires an additional table, can we agree it is coming from someone else ? Someone poorer. Even if the governement can make a new table to replace it, the fact that mr table is sucking up all tables on the market is still a problem for every one else.
You say they don’t have money, but if they live well, buy everything they want and influence the world as they see fit, I feel it’s disingenuous to say they don’t actually have money. They’re certainly sucking up your tables.
I’m going on a tangeant here, but it’s exactly why you don’t want your government to be cash positive. A government in the green is taking that money from someplace. A government in the red is actually helping everyone else not drown. It’s all a matter of where that money is going. That explains why the vast majority of countries run in the red. A government paying it’s own debt is the same as deleting money from the economy.
I do agree with your general sentiment though.
sudoshakes@reddthat.com 1 month ago
8 people now have more than 53% of the world combined.
spykee@lemmings.world 1 month ago
Valve gives you a taste of gambling.
Every billionaire out there has become a billionaire by being a fucking idiot. No exceptions.
pcgamer.com/…/valves-reported-profit-per-head-fro…Suburbanl3g3nd@lemmings.world 1 month ago
If one bad apple truly should the bunch, yes. Yes you have to eat him too
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 1 month ago
We can give him the honor of being eaten last.
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 1 month ago
It’ll give him time to stop being a billionaire before it’s too late.
Grimy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Gabe’s fleet of yatchs is worth about 1 billion (8 boats and a sub or two). The yearly maintenance cost is estimated to be between 100 to 150 million per year. He essentially taxes a whole industry and most gamers because the soft monopoly and collusion he has going on with Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo let’s him.
This is literally the definition of boot licking. Please try to think farther then the line his marketing team draws for you.
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 1 month ago
ABAB. All billionaires are bad.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 month ago
In ten years people will talking about the GabeCube killing PC modularity like they always saw it coming
termaxima@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
We shouldn’t eat them. I don’t want prion disease.
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 1 month ago
Give him the ability to divest his wealth first.
remon@ani.social 1 month ago
He has the ability right now.
Doesn’t really count if you’re only doing it once people threaten you with murder.
TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca 1 month ago
There's a real easy way for him to not be eaten. Make sure he has no more than $999, 999,999 in his pocket when we get there
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 month ago
But that’s haaaaard.
You guys are much less understanding than I expected. Bleeding hearts, my ass…
hakase@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Bleeding hearts always clot surprisingly fast when it comes to those they don’t like.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I obviously should’ve posted this to unpopularopinions. Still, you guys need to really slow down and enjoy your showers more, JESUS.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 month ago
Do we get to keep his boats?
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Okay, I hear you. But if you were a billionaire, wouldn’t YOU buy six boats? PLEASE try to lie and claim otherwise.
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The fuck would I or anyone for that matter do with more than 1 boat? Honestly?
HubertManne@piefed.social 1 month ago
Is that boats inside of boats or completely seperate. I can’t see ore than 3. Spare boat and emergency boat in the off chance both are down.
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Gabe and Swift are not obligate billionaires. They both have the capacity to adjust their wealth to avoid the cutoff.
lemming741@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’ll let the normies keep swift if we can keep gabe
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They are both part of the problem.
sircac@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Just universal wealth redistribution, there is no way a human may ever deserve to accumulate so many resources…
Juice@midwest.social 1 month ago
Well history shows, that guillotining your ruling class, such as happened in France, leads to centuries of uninterrupted and 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 not just 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.
SGforce@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Enjoy your grovelling, I hear there’s cake!
Juice@midwest.social 1 month ago
Read Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Read Wretched of the Earth. Read The Revolution Betrayed. Read Kronstadt 1921.
Enjoy your Blanqism and Bonapartism, I hear there is no cake
Hadriscus@jlai.lu 1 month ago
heheh
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
no
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 month ago
:(
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Love cool ideas not companies!
Hadriscus@jlai.lu 1 month ago
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.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Why eat them? You better turn them to compost, so they can actually help something grow.
DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
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.
Nomorereddit@lemmy.today 1 month ago
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
kepix@lemmy.world 1 month ago
since the game news shelf ui update he really does deserve to be eaten
sturmblast@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Gabe is not the enemy
hotdogcharmer@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
A billionaire is a billionaire. 🤷♂️
sturmblast@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Name some things that make Gabe a bad guy.
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Sadly, he is. This is what the enemy looks like. It is simply not possible to ethically acquire even a tenth of the wealth that he hoards for himself. The damage he has caused in acquiring and retaining that wealth is far greater than his net worth.
The sooner he starts his redemption arc, the better.
Quexotic@infosec.pub 1 month ago
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I’m not eating Elon Musk. That’s like dumpster diving behind a cracker barrel.
Phunter@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
The fattest pigs make the crispiest bacon.