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Centralized money and power in one person is ALWAYS a bad thing, even if they are smart, benevolent, and generous. Even if the results in this one instance are ok, they are part of the same system that allows for all of the other oligarchs and capitalists to have obscene unitary power over people. We shouldn't ever allow the values and whims of one person have sway over millions. Period.
And Gabe is a human being. He will age and retire. Or he will die. His views may change. Then what happens? Being ok now is not a guarantee of the future. Better to get rid of the system than to prop up the occasional good guy of the system as an example of it working.
Yeah sure, that has nothing to with what I wrote tho.
Want to stop allowing "the values and whims of one person have sway over millions.", get rid of Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg, Microsof-CEO-du-jour. Can't? Well then the guy selling games and loot boxes isn't really a good consolation prize, especially when the consequence of removing him is reducing support for alternative operating systems and limiting the freedom of millions, to replace it with an unknown.
& Gabe the tech monopolist. He's a perfect match for that list.