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Steam owner Valve accused of ripping off 14m UK gamers
(www.bbc.com)
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this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2024
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I also have a soft spot for Steam and have likely bankrolled a few employees there on my own, but it's been pretty funny seeing the usual anti-corporate sentiments set aside for Steam. This case looks pretty flimsy, but watching people defend Gabe's billion dollar yacht collection with "everyone needs a hobby" gave me such cultural whiplash here on Lemmy that I might need to go to the hospital. That guy has a true "get out of jail free" card with gamers.
Not a fan of yachts but it beats the usual rich person hobbies of "buy a politician" or "fund a cult/hate-group"
(okay maybe gamers count as a cult, now that I'm thinking about it)
I'm not even passing judgment on Gabe here. We live in a capitalist society and he came up with a pretty solid idea and built a fortune off of it. I do think we should be taxing the fuck out of it well before a person can buy a fleet of yachts, but I don't think Gabe is the type that's actively perpetuating this system either. He seems like a genuinely nice guy who had a talent and a fair bit of luck.
Lemmy is a hell of a lot more anti-capitalist than I am though and it was wild to see that thread.
I'll pass judgement. No one deserves a billion dollars so long as a single human being is going hungry or without shelter. When the rich are getting eaten, I won't pause because Gabe had a cool storefront.