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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.