• Grimy@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    Edit: I’m using him as an example of an other billionaire who is constantly defended even though he owns 6 mega yatchs and a few submarines costing him an estimated 75 to 100 million a year just in maintenance. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

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        19 days ago

        Especially when steam could have a sliding scale for fees where developers with fewer sales could earn more profit from the sale which would greatly benefit the indie developers.

        Instead it has the opposite structure where fees decrease as you sell many millions in revenue which has the opposite effect.

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      19 days ago

      To be fair

      He did get the steam deck made, so that was kinda cool.

      But maybe owning 6 yachts is a little less cool.

      Unless the sub and boats were like research vessels he funds, that would be cool

      But they aren’t.

      Why can’t billionaires dump their money into funding scientific research? It’s not like there aren’t scientists out there with plenty of research to be done.

      Or even maybe wherever he lives, he could like, fund the entire county school districts for the rest of existence and no one would have to worry about taxes.

      Or maybe regularly cancel the medical debt of Valve employees and their families.

      Like how fucking hard is it to redistribute your own wealth?

      Like fucking Christ, that’s the part I don’t understand. They complain about taxes and shit at the top, but they do absolutely fuck all to make things better for large swaths of people. Or if they do, it’s after they die and $200m gets donated to a university and it prevents next year’s tuition from increasing.

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      18 days ago

      who the fuck is he and why does everyone know him by face?

      i feel morally superior to all of yall who are star gazing all the time, fuck, why do you all know who he is