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Steam is basically a PC gaming monopoly, so why isn’t anyone mad? (www.digitaltrends.com)
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ITT I learn that oligarch gabe nawel is the elon musk of gamers

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[–] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 22 points 1 week ago

Because it's one of the only functional monopolies that got there by attracting users rather than M&As to quash competitors and regulatory capture. Monopolies shouldn't just intrinsically make you angry, they just are usually bad because they will have done anticompetitive things in order to become a monopoly.